Where should philosophy-of-language questions go?

Question

Both Linguistics and Philosophy have philosophy-of-language tags with a decent number of questions (36 on Philosophy and 13 on Linguistics; the Linguistics site also has some related questions in other tags).

Should we recommend a site for where these sorts of questions should go? If so, which?

Answer 1

I agree with Cerberus but this doesn't mean both are OK on both sites: tailor the question to the site you're (=general) posting it. We don't have the same kind of "investigation" and answers that Philosophy SE does. So the question should aim at a different target and get a different answer/analysis.

Other than that, posting on either is fine. Overlapping is impossible to avoid between sites and is not a reason for "forbidding" questions. Are they good for us? Then you can ask.

Answer 2

Expanding on Alenanno's answer, I would say that the following rough criteria should apply:

• On Linguistics: questions dealing with the philosophical foundations for the study of languages. The highest voted one on the tag is a good example.
• On Philosophy: questions dealing with the nature of language itself, or with how other philosophers tackled such problems. Again, the highest voted question serves as a reference.

But, of course, the division is sometimes blurry, so use this as a guideline.