Review : Watch this space

Those who appreciate scrutinising someone else’s playful diary notes,
especially if written in an aphoristic Wittgensteinian numbering style and
containing no definite theory of language or mind, will like A Theory of
Language and Mind by Ermanno Bencivenga. I restrain myself from calling the
title a fraud. The publishers say that it “frustrates our expectations of a
proper theory of language and mind”, as if our expectations were improper. I
think the author lacks the courage to stick his neck out and say something,
which is a shame as he seems to have lots of imagination. Published by
University of California Press, £16.95/$22, ISBN 0520207912.