picture theory of meaning

Italian translation: teoria raffigurativa del significato

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English term or phrase:	picture theory of meaning
Italian translation:	teoria raffigurativa del significato
Entered by:	_floriana_

22:03 Nov 13, 2006

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Art/Literary - Philosophy

English term or phrase: picture theory of meaning

Non so come tradurre 'the picture theory of meaning' in italiano: si tratta della definizione dell'approccio di Wittgenstein nelle sue prime opere: qualcuno più ferrato di me in filosofia ha qualche idea?
La frase completa è questa:

In his early work, Wittgenstein used an approach that is sometimes called 'the picture theory of meaning', which sees a sentence as presenting a state of affairs by being a kind of picture of it, mirroring the structure of the state of affairs it portrays.

Teoria rappresentativa del significato? Teoria iconica del significato? Boh...

_floriana_ KudoZ activity Questions: 267 (none open) (22 closed without grading) Answers: 106 Italy
Local time: 17:13

teoria raffigurativa del linguaggio

Explanation:
http://www.filosofico.net/witteg4.htm

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Marina Rossa
Local time: 17:13

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scelgo questa, ma credo che si tratti di teoria raffigurativa del significato, non del linguaggio.
grazie
fp
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teoria raffigurativa del linguaggio

Marina Rossa

teoria dell'immagine

Thomas Roberts

teoria immaginativa del significato

Morena Nannetti (X)

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19 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

teoria raffigurativa del linguaggio

Explanation:
http://www.filosofico.net/witteg4.htm

Reference: http://www.filosofico.net/witteg4.htm

Marina Rossa
Local time: 17:13
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 6

Grading comment

scelgo questa, ma credo che si tratti di teoria raffigurativa del significato, non del linguaggio.
grazie
fp

9 hrs confidence:

teoria dell'immagine

Explanation:
I've only studied W in English but this rings a bell. If you google it you get links to university sites, perhaps more reliable...

http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:beTpEbb9YuwJ:www.dif.uni...

http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:L_-mSxnFWx8J:www.sfi.it/...

http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:wG7HDrwnGFwJ:www.lettere...

Thomas Roberts
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian

11 hrs confidence:

teoria immaginativa del significato

Explanation:
Non ne sono certa, ma Wittgestein nega che ad una parola corrisponda sempre una data immagine, perché ritiene che questa corrispondenza sia limitata dalla situazione contingente.
Guarda i link sotto.

Reference: http://www.cronologia.com/storia/biografie/wittgen.htm
Reference: http://www.parametro.it/estratto252-253-it4.htm

Morena Nannetti (X)
Germany
Local time: 17:13
Native speaker of:

Italian

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