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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Pandemic of Argumentation
Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses communicative aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinformation from the perspective of argumentation theory. Argumentation theory is uniquely placed to understand and account for the challenges of public reason as expressed through argumentative discourse. The book thus focuses on the extent to which the forms, norms and functions of public argumentation have changed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This question is investigated along the three main research lines of the COST Action project CA 17132: European network for Argumentation and Public PoLicY analysis (APPLY): descriptive, normative, and prescriptive. The volume offers a broad range of contributions which treat argumentative phenomena that are directly related to the changes in public discourse in the wake of the outburst of COVID-19. The volume additionally places particular emphasis on expert argumentation, given (i) the importance expert discourse has had over the last two years, and (ii) the challenges that expert argumentation has faced in the public sphere as a result of scientific uncertainty and widespread misinformation. Contributions are divided into three groups, which (i) examine various features and aspects of public and institutional discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic, (ii) scrutinize the way health policies have been discussed, debated, attacked and defended in the public sphere, and (iii) consider a range of proposals meant to improve the quality of public discourse, and public deliberation in particular, in such a way that concrete proposals for argumentative literacy will be brought to light. Overall, this volume constitutes a timely inquiry into all things argumentative in pandemic discourse. This volume is of interest to a broad readership including philosophers, linguists, communication and legal scholars, and members of the wider public who seek to better understand the discourse surrounding communicative phenomena in times of crisis.COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation networks. For more information: www.cost.euTable of ContentsChapter 1. The Pandemic of Argumentation.- Part I: Arguing About The Pandemic.- Chapter 2. Arguing About “COVID”: Metalinguistic Arguments on What Counts As A “Covid-19 Death”. Chapter 3. ‘Covid-19’: Meaning and Reference.- Chapter 4. Political Interference and Argumentative Styles.- Chapter 5. The Evaluative Component in Pragmatic Argumentation: An Analysis of Public Discourse During the First Wave of the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic in Italy.- Chapter 6. Spaces of Argumentation and their Interaction: Some Elements of Thought Inspired by Controversies and Dispute in France During the Covid-19 Crisis.- Chapter 7. The Argumentative Potential of Doubt: From Legitimate Concerns to Conspiracy Theories About Covid-19 Vaccines. Chapter 8. Analysing the Public Debate About Lockdown.- Chapter 9. Responding to the COVID Conspiracy Theories: Why Narratives Themselves are More Powerful Arguments than Fact-Checking.- Chapter 10. Reshaping Society through an Expanded Understanding of the Role of Analogy: Or How the Co-Vid Crisis Can Lead to a Better World.- Chapter 11. Expert Uncertainty: Arguments Bolstering the Ethos of Expertise in Situations of Uncertainty.- Chapter 12. Conditional Perfection, Scientific Schizophrenia and Political Decisions: On the Argumentative Dark Side of Pandemic Discourse.- Part II: Justifying and Promoting Health Policies.- Chapter 13. Good and Ought in Argumentation: COVID-19 as a Case Study.- Chapter 14. Visual Argumentation and Law: Broadcasting and Justifying the Norms During the Pandemic.- Chapter 15. Securitisation and the Rediscovery of the Invisible Enemy in Times of Pandemic: Analysing Political Discourses from the European South.- Chapter 16. The UK Government’s ‘Balancing Act’ in the Pandemic. Arguing from Competing Concerns: Lives, Livelihoods and Liberties.- Chapter 17. Practical Conflicts between Law and Morality: An Argumentative Analysis of the Case of Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps.- Chapter 18. How to Deal with Deep Disagreements? The Role of Rhetoric in Crisis Communication: The Case of COVID-19.- Chapter 19. On Arguments from Ignorance in Policy-Making.- Chapter 20. Persuasion, Politics, and COVID-19: Audience as a Political Category.- Part III: Elements of Argumentative Literacy.- Chapter 21. Inoculating Students Against Conspiracy Theories: The Case of Covid-19.- Chapter 22. Staying up to Date with Argument Checking: Outdated News as Defeasible Arguments.- Chapter 23. Combatting Conspiratorial Thinking with Controlled Argumentation Dialogue Environments.- Chapter 24. Is Interpretation of Conspiracy Theories done in a Fair and Useful Way?.- Chapter 25. How to Handle Reasonable Disagreement: The Case of Covid-19.- Chapter 26. Constructing Arguments about COVID-19 Governmental Guidelines.- Chapter 27. “I (Don’t) Agree with You, So You Are (In)Competent” The Role of One’s Own Opinion in Accepting Arguments from Expert Opinion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Philosophy of Communication
Book SynopsisBy comprehensively exploring the theoretical questions raised by professional communication, this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of communication. Key Features: Arranged in three parts encompassing the theory of communication, conflict transformation and the role communication plays within organizations. Examines how agreement is reached through communication, how such agreement is negotiated between different perspectives and how such negotiation produces our organizations. Includes a full range of pedagogical features, including study questions, essay questions. chapter summaries, focus points and suggestions for further reading. Philosophy of Communication is essential reading for all students of the philosophy of communication.Table of ContentsPart I. Towards a cognitive theory of communication.- Chapter 1. The phenomenon of human communication.- Chapter 2. The semiotic approach.- Chapter 3. Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic rules.- Chapter 4. The limits of the code model.- Chapter 5. Grice’s inferential model.- Chapter 6. Levels of meaning.- Chapter 7. Relevance Theory.- Part II. The role of communication in conflict transformation.- Chapter 8. What are conflicts and why do they occur?.- Chapter 9. Conflict analysis.- Chapter 10. Conflict dynamics.- Chapter 11. Conflict transformation.- Part III. The communicative constitution of organizations.- Chapter 12. Organizations and communication.- Chapter 13. Classical theories of organizations.- Chapter 14. Systems theory.- Chapter 15. Sensemaking.- Chapter 16. Emergent organizations.- Chapter 17. Objectivity.- Chapter 18. Normativity.
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Springer International Publishing AG Exploring Contextualism and Performativity: The
Book SynopsisThis edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied. This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Table of Contents0. IntroductionAlessandro Capone, Assunta PennaI. Pragmalinguistics- Chapter 1. Reference in Context. Alessandro Capone- Chapter 2. For a definition of hyperbole as operative on the scenes of the ancient Greektheatre: situations and lexicon. Paola Radici Colace- Chapter 3. Synonymy and contextual dependence. Grazia BasileII. Performativity and social pragmatics- Chapter 4. Genre as a context for persuasion: the construction of identities in differentforms of institutionalised discourse. A case study. Francesca Santulli- Chapter 5. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery. StefanaGarello, Marco Carapezza- Chapter 6. Material engagement and mediation: two necessary concepts. Francesco Parisi- Chapter 7. Silence as a meaning framework. Antonia Cava- Chapter 8. Schtroumpf: forms of life and forms of talk. Assunta PennaIII. Neurocognition and Clinical studies- Chapter 9. Cognitive-Linguistic Difficulties in COVID-19. Louise Cummings- Chapter 10. Reasoning as a tool at the service of our goals. Amelia Gangemi- Chapter 11. When context really matters: the case of schizophrenia. Valentina Cardella- Chapter 12. Beyond the Meaning of Words: Issues in Neuropragmatics, ClinicalPragmatics and Schizophrenic Language. Rosalia Cavalieri, Antonino Bucca- Chapter 13. Moral enhancement and contextualism: some reasons for the unattainability ofthe program for moralizing people. Consuelo Luverà- Chapter 14. Clinical pragmatics and contextualism. Roberto Graci
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Springer International Publishing AG Discourse and Argumentation in Archaeology:
Book SynopsisThis book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures. The book begins with an introduction to discourse and argumentation analysis as a general field and also as an auxiliary technique to archaeology. The work includes conceptual applications, ranging from causality, ontological connections, vagueness, social production of discourse and public debates. The work also devotes a section to computational approaches and describes the specifics of some well-known families of algorithms such as lexical processing, information extraction or sentiment analysis. The conclusion comments on the future and which reflects on the previous chapters and discusses how the presented techniques and approaches should be adapted or improved for easier and more powerful application to archaeology. Contributing authors bring perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, and computer science.Trade Review Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to Discourse Analysis and Argumentation Theory (Martín Pereira-Fariña).- Part 1. Conceptual Approaches.- Chapter 2. A New Approach to Interoperable Argumentation Documentation (Stephen Stead).- Chapter 3. Making Good Arguments in Archaeology (Michael E. Smith).- Chapter 4. A Causal Model Application to a Cultural Heritage Sentence Analysis (Alejandro Sobrino).- Chapter 5. What Archaeological Texts Argue About: Denotations and Ontological Proxies (Cesar Gonzalez-Perez).- Chapter 6. The Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology (Isto Huvila).- Chapter 7. Dealing with Vagueness in Archaeological Discourses (Cesar Gonzalez-Perez).- Chapter 8. Extending Discourse Analysis in Archaeology: A Multimodal Approach (Jeremy Huggett).- Part 2. Computational Techniques.- Chapter 9. Computer Processing of Language: Where Archaeological Discourse and Computers Meet (Patricia Martín-Rodilla).- Chapter 10. NLP and Archaeology: A View from a Digital Archive (Holly Wright)- Chapter 11. Information Extraction and Machine Learning for Archaeological Texts (Alex Brandsen).- Chapter 12. Argument Mining and Analytics in Archaeology (John Lawrence).- Chapter 13. Computational Processing of Language Vagueness for Archaeological Site Modelling (Maria Elena Castiello).- Part 3. The Future.- Chapter 14. Future Directions (Cesar Gonzalez-Perez).
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De Gruyter Hans-Georg Gadamer: Wahrheit und Methode
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De Gruyter Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches
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De Gruyter Complex and Derived Constructions
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De Gruyter The Expression of Possession
Book SynopsisHuman thought and action is fundamentally shaped by a small set of cognitive categories, such as time, space, causality, or possession. It is not surprising, therefore, that all natural languages have developed many devices to express these categories. Temporality, for example, is reflected in the lexical meaning of verbs, in grammatical marking of tense and aspect, in time adverbials, in special particles, and in the application of discourse principles. Many of these devices have been the subject of intensive research across languages; but as a rule, this research focuses on particular aspects, it does not look at the expression of such a category as a whole, which is precisely the aim of the present series. The short volumes bring together what is known about the expression of a particular category in human language.
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De Gruyter Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement
Book SynopsisThe theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act theory, and pragmatics are largely found with Victoria Lady Welby. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say, in addition, that Welby is the "founding mother" of semiotics. Some of Peirce's most innovative writings - for example, those on existential graphs - are effectively letters to Lady Welby. She was an esteemed correspondent of scholars such as Bertrand Russell, Charles K. Ogden, Herbert G. Wells, Ferdinand S. C. Schiller, Michel Bréal, André Lalande, the brothers Henry and William James, and Peirce, as well as Frederik van Eeden, Mary Everst Boole, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Giovanni Vailati. Her writings directly inspired the Signific Movement in the Netherlands, important for psycholinguistics, linguistics and semantics and inaugurated by van Eeden and developed by such authors as Gerrit Mannoury. This volume, containing introductions and commentaries, presents a selection from Welby's published and unpublished writings delineating the whole course of her research through to developments with the Significs Movement in the Netherlands and still other ramifications, contemporary and subsequent to her. A selection of essays by first-generation significians contributing to the Signific Movement in the Netherlands completes the collection, testifying to the progress of significs after Welby and even independently from her. This volume contributes to the reconstruction on both the historical and theoretical levels of an important period in the history of ideas. The aim of the volume is to convey a sense of the theoretical topicality of significs and its developments, especially in semiotics, and in particular its thematization of the question of values and the connection with signs, meaning, and understanding, therefore with human verbal and nonverbal behavior, language and communication.
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De Gruyter The Gongsun Longzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives
The Gongsun Longzi is often considered the only extant work of the Classical Chinese “School of Names”, an early intellectual tradition (trad. dated to the 4th cent. B.C.) mainly concerned with logic and the philosophy of language. The Gongsun Longzi is a heterogeneous collection of five chapters that include short treatises and largely fictive dialogues between an anonymous persuader and his opponent, which typically revolve around a paradoxical claim. Its value as a testimony to Early Chinese philosophy, however, is somewhat controversial due to the intricate textual history of the text and our limited knowledge about its intellectual backgrounds. This volume gathers contributions by leading specialists in the fields of Classical Chinese philosophy, philology, logic, and linguistics. Besides an overview of the scholarly literature on the topic and a detailed account of the reception of the text throughout time, it presents fresh insights into philological and philosophical problems raised by the Gongsun Longzi and other closely-related texts equally attributed to the “School of Names”.
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De Gruyter Selbst Philosophieren: Ein Methodenbuch
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De Gruyter Frege: Aufsätze zur Logik und Sprachphilosophie
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De Gruyter The Natural History of the Sign: Peirce, Vygotsky
Book Synopsis Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultural artifact, or as one that that 'distorts', in some way, our understanding of the empirical world. Such a perspective will always undermine appreciation of Peirce as a philosopher who viewed signs as the very mechanisms that enable us to understand reality through concept formation. The key to this repositioning of Peirce is to place his work in the broad frame of Hegelian philosophy. This book evaluates, in detail, the parallels that exist between Peircean and Hegelian thought, highlighting their convergences and also the points at which Peirce departs from Hegel's position. It also considers the work of Vygotsky on concept formation showing that both are, in fact, working within the same Hegelian template. This book, therefore, contributes to our broader understanding of Peircean semiotics. But by drawing in Vygotsky, under the same theoretical auspices, it demonstrates that Peirce has much to offer contemporary educational learning theory.
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De Gruyter Begriff, Bewusstsein und Bedeutung
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Kohlhammer Wort Und Wahrheit: Fragen Der Erkenntnistheorie
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Muttersprache Und Vaterland
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Aschendorff Verlag Anonymi Epternacensis Glossae in Logicam: Studie
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Harrassowitz Worldview in Narrative and Non-Narrative
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Vortrage: Teil 2: 1935 Bis 1967
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Vortrage: Teil 2: 1935 Bis 1967
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Semantic Pluralism
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann The Big Typescript
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Nichtidentitat Und Unbegrifflichkeit:
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Sprache U Macht U Magie: Beitrage Des Workshops
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press The Ontological Nature of Part-Whole
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Meaning and Non-Existence: Kumarila's Refutation
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Brill U Fink Harmonische Semantik: Zur Musikasthetischen
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Drucke in Der Prager Presse
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Dem Wort Dienen: Zugange Zur Wortphilosophie
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Ausgewahlte Schriften Zur Philosophie Der Logik
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Universitatsverlag Winter Geist, Geschichte, Wirklichkeit: Grundfragen Der
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Transcript Verlag Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism: An
Book SynopsisArchitecture and urbanism seem to be "weak" disciplines, constantly struggling for a better understanding of their nature and disciplinary borders. The huge amount of metaphors appearing in the discourse of both not only reference to their creative nature but also indicate their weakness and the missing piece strengthening their own understanding: a definition of space for architecture and of city for urbanism. But using metaphors in this field implies a problem - though metaphors achieve to bring opposites together, there remains the question how literal they can actually become in order to relate to these subjects properly. In this volume, several authors from various fields using different approaches discuss this question.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Teaching English to Refugees
Book SynopsisRobert Radins Teaching English to Refugees does it all, weaving together memoir, philosophy of language, social-justice advocacy, and graphic narrative into a haunting meditation on what can happen when the least powerful among us escape oppression and seek refuge in the United States. With the unerring precision of both linguist and poet, Radin tells a story of teaching English to refugees from such troubled areas of the world as Iraq, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As he struggles to find ways to reach across languages and cultures so disparate they do not even seem to be part of the same world, a quieter story plays out -- his own, where multi-generational Jewish legacies get compressed into incisive and singular moments of prose you wont soon forget. Through it all, the voices of his Muslim students -- haltingly at first, and then with increasing confidence -- carve out a space for being all their own. Like Jenny Erpenbecks Go, Went, Gone, this spare, unsparing, and intrepid book takes a close, unwavering look at some of the hardest stories of our times until nothing is what it seems at first and students become teachers to us all. -- Katharine Haake, Professor of English, California State University Northridge, author of The Time of Quarantine and That Water, Those RocksTrade ReviewPart parable and part memoir, this powerful meditation on language and memory, teachers and students, has a mysterious and magical force to it. Its a beautiful gift from Robert Radin to his students, and to us, his fortunate readers. James E. Young, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of The Stages of Memory, At Memorys Edge, and The Texture of MemoryTable of ContentsPart One: The Color Blue; Part Two: Springfield 2011; Part Three: Rapture of the Deep; Credits; Acknowledgements.
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V&R Unipress Regel, Fehler, Korrektur: Der Non-Native
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V&R unipress GmbH Demonstrative Bezugnahme und die
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V&R Unipress Gegen Das Verstummen: Texthermeneutische
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Walking Tree Publishers Tolkien and Philosophy
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Brill Mentis Logic, Language, and the Liar Paradox
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Decent Books Language and Mind: Western Perspective v. 1
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University Press of Southern Denmark Three Crowns and Eleven Tears: East Norse
Book SynopsisThis past decade or so, the study of East Norse philology has been experiencing something of a renaissance. This volume contains twelve articles written by international scholars from seven different countries. Based on papers given at the Fourth International Conference for East Norse Philology held in Cologne in June 2019, this volume presents the latest research within areas such as Text Witness and Linguistics, Paleography as well as Codicology, Transmission, Adaptation, and Media Change. Three Crowns and Eleven Tears: East Norse Philology from Cologne is the fourth volume published by Selskab for Østnordisk Filologi Sällskap för östnordisk filologi, founded in Uppsala in 2013.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Domain of Language
Book SynopsisThis book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their different favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and -- worse still -- lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an unconventional way Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the state of the discipline today.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Synchronic Fallacy: Historical Investigations
Book SynopsisThis book introduces a post-modern attitude into the science of language. In accordance with its own Critico-Philological Method the essay is a constructive critique of the transcendent foundationalism of modern synchronic linguistics. Without falling into nihilistic pitfalls of the post-modern mind''s antifoundationalism, the author demonstrates both how the static essentialism of modern linguistics turns out to be a transcendent, metaphysical statement of only a section of the everyday language, and how the synchronicity of modern linguistics cannot deliver on its promises to produce empirically relevant and non-shortening descriptions of the dynamic existence of the everyday language. Rehabilitating the Erkenntnisswert of the non-transcendent use of the everyday language -- a project with Glossematic, ''Hermeneutical'' and ''Deconstructivist'' overtones - the Synchronic Fallacy presents an argument against the modern synchronisation of historical linguistics and demonstrates the possibility of constructing a historical theory through the introduction of the Existential Function of the everyday language as an implementation of man''s temporally structured mind, our historical sense. The essay''s critical analyses of the four conceptual pillars of modern, static linguistics -- system, structure, state, synchrony -- evolve a determination of the temporal-dynamic nature of structure/Structuralism so that the essay''s view of our tradition''s purported antinomy: ''structure and history'', dovetails with the advanced view of language: language change is not to be seen or observed, but comprehended.
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U Press Creativity and Continuity: Perspectives on the
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the dynamic interplay between creativity and continuity in communication. Though conventionalisation is essential to any understanding of the foundation of interaction and language, thus far it has not been the subject of any substantial collective effort. New research presented here seeks to redress this. An introductory chapter critically reviews the theoretical assumptions and pitfalls of twentieth-century approaches to communication and conventionalisation. The successive chapters are by scholars from different theoretical backgrounds within language and literature. They study the processes of conventionalisation from the complementary perspectives of linguistic and literary research traditions and cover a diverse field of cognitive, social, and historical aspects of language. The target readership of the book is scholars and students of language and communication -- including literacy and literary studies and philosophy of language -- who are interested in foundational issues and their profound implications for empirical analysis.
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Fatti Di Parole Filosofia del Linguaggio 7
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Brill A Marxist Philosophy of Language
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to give a precise meaning to the formula: English is the language of imperialism. Understanding that statement involves a critique of the dominant views of language, both in the field of linguistics (the book has a chapter criticising Chomsky’s research programme) and of the philosophy of language (the book has a chapter assessing Habermas’s philosophy of communicative action). The book aims at constructing a Marxist philosophy of language, embodying a view of language as a social, historical, material and political phenomenon. Since there has never been a strong tradition of thinking about language in Marxism, the book provides an overview of the question of Marxism in language (from Stalin’s pamphlet to Voloshinov's book, taking in an essay by Pasolini), and it seeks to construct a number of concepts for a Marxist philosophy of language. The book belongs to the tradition of Marxist critique of dominant ideologies. It should be particularly useful to those who, in the fields of language study, literature and communication studies, have decided that language is not merely an instrument of communication.Trade Review"Lecercle’s book is definitely thought provoking [...]" - Piotr Stalmaszczyk, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 17 November 2010 "many excellent points [...] this book has to offer" - Peter Ives, in: Capital & Class 94:162-166Table of Contents1. 'Chirac est un ver' 2. Critique of Linguistics 3. Critique of the Philosophy of Language 4. The Marxist Tradition 5. Continuations 6. Propositions (1) 7. Propositions (2) Conclusion: Contrasting Short Glossaries of Philosophy of Language References Index
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Springer Mathematical Methods in Linguistics
Book SynopsisElementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity. The material on logic covers not only the standard statement logic and first-order predicate logic but includes an introduction to formal systems, axiomatization, and model theory. The section on algebra is presented with an emphasis on lattices as well as Boolean and Heyting algebras. Background for recent research in natural language semantics includes sections on lambda-abstraction and generalized quantifiers. Chapters on automata theory and formal languages contain a discussion of languages between context-free and context-sensitive and form the background for much current work in syntactic theory and computational linguistics. The many exercises not only reinforce basic skills but offer an entry to linguistic applications of mathematical concepts. For upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in theoretical linguistics, computer-science students with interests in computational linguistics, logic programming and artificial intelligence, mathematicians and logicians with interests in linguistics and the semantics of natural language.Table of ContentsPreface. Part A. Set Theory. 1. Basic Concepts of Set Theory. 2. Relations and Functions. 3. Properties of Relations. 4. Infinities. Appendix A1. Part B. Logic and Formal Systems. 5. Basic Concepts of Logic. 6.Statement Logic. 7. Predicate Logic. 8. Formal Systems, Axiomatization, and Model Theory. Appendix B1. Appendix BII. Part C. Algebra. 9. Basic Concepts of Algebra. 10. Operational Structures. 11. Lattices. 12. Boolean and Heyting Algebras. Part D. English as a Formal Language. 13. Basic Concepts of Formal Languages. 14. Generalized Quantifiers. 15. Intensionality. Part E. Languages, Grammars, and Automata. 16. Basic Concepts of Languages, Grammars, and Automata. 17. Finite Automata, Regular Languages and Type 3 Grammars. 18. Pushdown Automata, Context-Free Grammars and Languages. 19. Turing Machines, Recursively Enumberable Languages, and Type 0 Grammars. 20. Linear Bounded Automata, Context-Sensitive Languages and Type 1 Grammars. 21. Languages Between Context-Free and Context-Sensitive. 22. Transformational Grammars. Appendix EI. Appendix EII. Review Problems. Index.
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