Yeşil, Mustafa2020-01-182020-01-182016Yeşil, M. (2016). The theories of meaning and some reasons for combining them in Stainton's philosophy of language. Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy, 6, 1, 1-16.1303-8303https://app.trdizin.gov.tr/makale/TWpBMk5UUTNOdz09/the-theories-of-meaning-and-some-reasons-for-com-bining-them-in-stainton-s-philosophy-of-languagehttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12452/1408Stainton mentions there are three different meaning theories giving directions to the linguistic studies and claims none of them can fit well with actual linguistic practice as a whole. As a matter of course, what prompts him to this criticism is that he identifies some strong reasons to combine the theories of meaning. What we try to do here is to classify some basic reasons he focuses on and discuss how his theory works both in terms of explaining what a language, linguistic item, meaning are and in terms of describing the ontological diversity that linguistics relates to.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessLanguagePhilosophy of languageLinguistic itemLinguistic practiceTheories of meaningArticle61116WOS:000441691500001