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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Doll
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessedby our aspirations. They''re commonly used as a tool to teach mothering to young girls, but more often they are avatars of the idealized feminine self. (The word doll even acts as shorthand for a desirable woman.) They instruct girls what to strive for in society, reinforcing dominant patriarchal, heteronormative, white views around class, bodies, history, and celebrity, in insidious ways. Girls' dolls occupy the opposite space of boys' action figures, which represent masculinity, authority, warfare, and conflict. By analyzing dolls from 17th century Japanese Hinamatsuri festivals, to the 80s American Girl Dolls, and even to today's bitmoji, Doll reveals how the objects society encourages us to play with as girls shape the women we become.Object LessonsTrade ReviewSome of the information is jaw dropping ... It is very readable and relatable. * Is This Mutton blog *The fascinating facts [Hart] uncovered about the women behind the industry and her observations about how dolls are emotional vectors—simultaneously objects of scorn and adoration—are revelatory and relatable. * Brevity *Maria Teresa Hart’s Doll is a fascinating personal and public exploration of the deeper meanings behind the plastic, polymer, and porcelain playthings that still shape American girlhood. * Susan Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Unhooked, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and Barbie: Sixty Years of Inspiration *Doll is a heartfelt, intimate, and clever study of objects that terrify some and thrill others. Maria Teresa Hart answers the question "what makes dolls so special, anyway?" while giving us new perspective on these tiny, fragile mirrors. * Allison Horrocks, co-host of the American Girls podcast *Aqua once sang of Barbie, “life in plastic, it’s fantastic.” The same could also be said of the experience of reading this great contribution by Maria Teresa Hart to the Object Lessons series. Through an analysis of “doll culture” Hart demonstrates the value of thinking with things. Dolls have much to teach us about issues of gender, sexuality, and girlhood. Through an exploration of different brands and styles, Hart reveals the stories we tell with and about dolls, and what thinking about them can tell us about our world. * Mary Mahoney, co-host of the American Girls podcast *Entertaining and brilliant, this deceptively slim book packs all the potent drama and intrigue of the world of childhood doll play itself. A fascinating exploration of self and society that is equal parts enlightening, nostalgic, and insightful. An important addition to the literature of feminist cultural history that readers are bound to return to again and again. * Summer Brennan, author of High Heel *Another spectacular part of this (Object Lessons) series. So much packed into such a small package, and yet so immensely readable as well. * Randomly Yours, Alex *Table of ContentsIntroduction Play Date #1 1. Bodies that Matter: The Barbie Doll Play Date #2 2. All that Money Can Buy: The Porcelain Doll Play Date #3 3. The Stories We Tell: The American Girl Doll Play Date #4 4. How to Live Forever: The Celebrity Doll Play Date #5 5. Virtual Proxy: The Avatar “Doll” Conclusion Acknowledgment Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Scream
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When you are born, the first thing you do is scream. Be it a response to fear, anger, sadness, or happiness, the scream is a declaration of being alive. The metal vocalist cupping the microphone blares out a deafeningly harsh scream. The drill instructor screams out commands to their soldiers. And then there's the bloodcurdling screams we know from horror films. A scream has many meanings, but it is an instinctive and reflexive action that, at its core, reveals raw emotion. Investigating popular and alternative cultures, art, and science, Michael J. Seidlinger tracks the resonance of the scream across media and literature and in his own voice. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewA comprehensive and deeply personal trip through the cultural history of the scream. From Slipknot to Edvard Munch to John Carpenter and back into his own body, Michael Seidlinger reminds us all why we scream. As a singer, this one really hit home! * Geoff Rickly, singer of Thursday *Michael J. Seidlinger dissects the emotional complexity of the scream and—using examples from history, pop culture, and his own life—analyzes the way it highjacks the rational mind. Scream is an unforgettable ode to auditory extremes. * Jim Ruland, author of Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records *Table of ContentsVoice (Prologue) 1. A Scream in the Night 2. Stand and Deliver 3. Speak Up, Shout Out 4. Howl at the Wall 5. A Rollercoaster of Emotions 6. “OMG I’m Screaming” The Body (Epilogue) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Art of Translation in Light of Bakhtins Reaccentuation
Book SynopsisAlthough Mikhail Bakhtin's study of the novel does not focus in any systematic way on the role that translation plays in the processes of novelistic creation and dissemination, when he does broach the topic he grants translation''a disproportionately significant role in the emergence and constitution of literature. The contributors to this volume, from the US, Hong Kong, Finland, Japan, Spain, Italy, Bangladesh, and Belgium, bring their own polyphonic experiences with the theory and practice of translation to the discussion of Bakhtin's ideas about this topic, in order to illuminate their relevance to translation studies today. Broadly stated, the essays examine the art of translation as an exercise in a cultural re-accentuation (a transferal of the original text and its characters to the novel soil of a different language and culture, which inevitably leads to the proliferation of multivalent meanings), and to explore the various re-accentuation devices employed over
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Lexington Books Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the
Book SynopsisIt is commonplace to regard many great works of literature—poems, dramas, works of fiction—as in some sense philosophical. Yet ever since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on concrete particulars that occurs in poetry and fiction. Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable elaborates on and addresses this Platonic tension, asking in what sense, if any, literature in the form of poetry, drama, short stories, and novels can contribute significantly to our philosophical understanding. Timothy Cleveland suggests there is something in certain poems, novels, and stories that makes them especially suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works show us something that a theoretical—scientific or philosophical—discourse cannot literally say.Trade ReviewIn a wide-ranging discussion that focuses on the relationship between philosophy and literature, Cleveland argues that some works of fiction can point readers toward what is unsayable. Against Plato, the author claims there is a sense in which literature can be philosophical by providing an enhanced awareness of the world, but trying to put this into words risks losing it. Among other reflections, Cleveland offers an extended account of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” to show how the poem works as a kind of performance that provides a strong sense of the self’s fragmentation in the modern world. It may seem paradoxical to say that one can talk about the unsayable, but poetry, novels, negative theology, and Zen Buddhist koans can get beneath the surface level of meaning to transform one from within. Cleveland describes his work as “a philosophical prolegomena to fiction and the unsayable” (p. 4). He does not get bogged down in theory but offers insights and a thoughtful discussion concerning philosophical aspects of literature “that cannot be articulated, only shown” (p. 22). Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice Reviews *I recommend the book to everyone interested in questions regarding literature and philosophy that issue from the ancient quarrel. Cleveland writes clearly and pushes his arguments forward through a maze of different philosophical disciplines. As he himself states, this book was written primarily in order to honor two of his great loves, literature and philosophy, and the result is a book that invites a similar degree of enthusiasm and dedication. Concerned with the unsayable, the book, almost paradoxically, manages to say (and show!) how inspiring philosophy can be, when it is done from the heart. Most importantly perhaps, in the age when literacy is rapidly declining and fewer and fewer people read, with the STEM-areas trumping the humanities all around the world, Cleveland’s book is a much-needed reminder that certain things just are beyond theoretical grasp: they can only be shown to us by art. One can only hope that its messages will resonate with those who fail to acknowledge the social, cultural, and educational values of the arts and philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *What can be shown but not said? Where and how can something of surpassing interest or importance be shown but not said? A picture, for example, can be worth a thousand words. These questions arise when we ponder what can be shown and not said. In this book, Timothy Cleveland, a philosopher who can see deeply and broadly, shows himself able to not only see but also say much of great interest about such questions. -- Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University
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Maney Publishing In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism
Book SynopsisThis book examines and breaks the routine to propose alternative languages for criticism. It shows the commitments of some of the most distinctive voices in criticism, from literature, music, the visual arts, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, amongst others, to comparative thinking.Table of Contents1. What If? The Language of Affect 2. Nuisance Value 3. Borges's Blindness and Giacometti's Eyes 4. Wittgenstein's Chopin: Interdisciplinarity and 'the Music Itself' 5. Preserving the Performance: Scholarship as Art? 6. Echoing the 'Mortal Ear': Orfeo's Indiscipline 7. Is Music Criticism Criticism? 8. Modernist Futures 9. Conversation, Sport, or Hatchet Job? Criticism and the Power of Metaphor 10. Set Adrift in Style: The Scholar as Fiction and Film-Maker in Jacob's Room 11. Languages for Learning to Delight in Art 12. Loopholes in Performance 13. Etymology and its Others 14. Yves Bonnefoy's Récits en rêve: The Intersection of Creativity and Critique 15. On Touching: War, Art, and the Realm of the Senses 16. Snapshots from the Hereafter: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Critic as Photographer 17. Faith and Doubt: An Alternative Dialectic 18. Literature and the Theory of Games: Kleist's Verlobung in St Domingo as an Example 19. Towards Discursive Discipline: Dance beyond Metaphor in Critical Writing 20. Interdisciplinarity and Public Engagement
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De Gruyter Language Universals, Markedness Theory, and Natural Phonetic Processes
Book SynopsisTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
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De Gruyter Mediating between Concepts and Grammar
Book SynopsisResearchers with backgrounds in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and psychology have contributed to the interdisciplinary discussion of the interface between conceptual representations and linguistic structures. This book fills a critical gap in cognitive science. The study implements the objective of determining the impact that adjoining non-linguistic cognitive systems have on linguistic encoding, the mapping between representations, and the requirements of language processing. In this setting event conceptualization and verbalization is treated as one central phenomenon from the different interdisciplinary viewpoints. Theoretical analyses are confronted with psycholinguistic findings about the processing of event representations. Further empirical issues like the influence of visual perception on speech become apparent since we are primarily concerned with the overall architecture of the language processing system as an integral part of the cognitive endowment. Here, the lexicon is recognized as a mediator between linguistic and non-linguistic, semantic and syntactic components. The volume constitutes a major contribution to knowledge in the field and will be of value to an interdisciplinary audience.Table of ContentsHeike Tappe and Holden Härtl: Mediating between concepts and language - Processing structures 1 Mediating between non-linguistic and linguistic structures: Femke van der Meulen: Coordination of eye gaze and speech in sentence production Philip Cummins, Boris Gutbrod, and Rüdiger Weingarten: Time patterns in visual perception and written phrase production Kathy van Nice and Rainer Dietrich: Animacy effects in language production: From mental model to formulator Markus Guhe: Incremental preverbal messages Gerard Kempen and Karin Harbusch: Word order scrambling as a consequence of incremental sentence production Andreas Späth: The linearization of arguments DPs and its semantic reflection Heike Wiese: Semantics as a gateway to language 2 Mediating between event conceptualization and verbalization: Elke van der Meer, Reinhard Beyer, Herbert Hagendorf, Dirk Strauch, and Matthias Kolbe: Temporal relations between event concepts Ralf Nüse: Segmenting event sequences for speaking Maria Mercedes Piñango: Events: Processing and neurological properties Johannes Dölling: Aspectual (re-)interpretation: Structural representation and processing Markus Egg and Kristina Striegnitz: Type coercion from a natural language generation point of view 3 The mediating function of the lexicon: Veronika Ehrich: The thematic interpretation of plural nominalizations Andrea Schalley: Competing principles in the lexicon Ladina Tschander: Concepts of motion and their linguistic encoding Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner: Too abstract for agents? The syntax and semantics of agentivity in abstracts of English research articles
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De Gruyter Selbst Philosophieren: Ein Methodenbuch
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Vortrage: Teil 2: 1935 Bis 1967
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Nichtidentitat Und Unbegrifflichkeit:
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Die Schonste Geschichte Der Welt
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Ausgewahlte Schriften Zur Philosophie Der Logik
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V&R Unipress Gegen Das Verstummen: Texthermeneutische
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The University of Chicago Press Bertrand Russell
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The University of Chicago Press The Design of Agreement Evidence from Chamorro
Book SynopsisA study of the fundamental building blocks that serve to organise natural language systems. The author argues that there are two distinct forms of agreement in linguistic theory: feature compatibility and an abstract syntactic relation. Her primary source of evidence is Chamorro, an Austro-nesian language spoken on Guam and Saipan.
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The University of Chicago Press The Evolution of Imagination
Book SynopsisConsider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole room is erupting with laughter. Or maybe it's a team of software engineers brainstorming their way to the next Google, or the Einsteins of the world code-cracking the mysteries of nature. Maybe it's simply a child playing with her toys. What do all of these activities share? With wisdom, humor, and joy, philosopher Stephen T. Asma answers that question in this book: imagination. And from there he takes us on an extraordinary tour of the human creative spirit. Guided by neuroscience, animal behavior, evolution, philosophy, and psychology, Asma burrows deep into the human psyche to look right at the enigmatic but powerful engine that is our improvisational creativity the source, he argues, of our remarkable imaginational capacity. How is it, he asks, that a story can evoke a whole world inside of us? How are we able to rehearse a skill, a speech, or even an entire scenario simply by thinking about it?How does creativity go beyond experience and help us make something completely new? And how does our moral imagination help us sculpt a better society? As he shows, we live in a world that is only partly happening in reality. Huge swaths of our cognitive experiences are made up by what-ifs, almosts, and maybes, an imagined terrain that churns out one of the most overlooked but necessary resources for our flourishing: possibilities. Considering everything from how imagination works in our physical bodies to the ways we make images, from the mechanics of language and our ability to tell stories to the creative composition of self-consciousness, Asma expands our personal and day-to-day forms of imagination into a grand scale: as one of the decisive evolutionary forces that has guided human development from the Paleolithic era to today. The result is an inspiring look at the rich relationships among improvisation, imagination, and culture, and a privileged glimpse into the unique nature of our evolved minds.
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The University of Chicago Press Hearing Things Voice and Method in the Writing of
Book SynopsisQuestioning the role of the human voice within the field of philosophy this text examines philosopher Stanley Cavell's viewpoint, the relation between his pervasive authorial voice and his equally powerful, though less discernible, impulse to produce a set of usable philosophical methods.
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The University of Chicago Press Following Searle on Twitter How Words Create
Book SynopsisTwitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis of our use of digital language. In Following Searle on Twitter, Hodgkin takes John Searle's theory of speech acts as Status Function Declarations (SFDs) speech acts that fulfill their meaning by saying the right words in the right context as a probe for understanding Twitter's institutional structure and the still-developing toolset that it provides for its members. He argues that Twitter is an institution built, constituted and evolving through the use of SFDs. Searle's speech act theories provide a framework for illuminating how Twitter membership arises, how users of Twitter relate to each other by following, and how increasingly complex content is conveyed with tweets. Using this framework, Hodgkin places language, action, intention, and
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The University of Chicago Press Battle in the Mind Fields
Book SynopsisWe frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side. Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks embark on a uniquely interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics, from nineteenth-century currents of thought in the mind sciences through to the origins of structuralism and the ruptures, both political and intellectual, in the years leading up to World War II. Seeking to explain where contemporary ideas in linguistics come from and how they have been justified, Battle in the Mind Fields investigates the porous interplay of concepts between psychology, philosophy, mathematical logic, and linguistics. Goldsmith and Laks trace theories of thought, self-consciousness, and language from the machine age obsession with mind and matter to the development of analytic philosophy, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, positivism, and structural linguistics, emphasizing throughout the synthesis and continuity that has brought about progress in our understanding of the human mind. Arguing that it is impossible to understand the history of any of these fields in isolation, Goldsmith and Laks suggest that the ruptures between them arose chiefly from social and institutional circumstances rather than a fundamental disparity of ideas.
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The University of Chicago Press Seeming and Being in Platos Rhetorical Theory
Book SynopsisAn analysis of Plato and the relationship he posits among language, truth, and the world.
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The University of Chicago Press Enumerations Data and Literary Study
Book SynopsisPiper shows how we can use data in digital humanities to learn more about the texts under consideration, making use of the surprising information that calculation and quantity can offer about words, how they're used, and what the texts in which they're found mean.
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The University of Chicago Press Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
Book SynopsisThis volume proposes means of describing, comparing, and interpreting linguistic diversity, both genetic and structural, providing the foundations for a theory of diversity based upon popular science.
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The University of Chicago Press The Spell of Language
Book SynopsisThe author shows that structuralism's use of linguistic theory has rendered hollow the philosophical core of a generation of work in the human sciences. He isolates three modes of thought and shows how they all, despite differences, advocate an antihumanist point of view.
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The University of Chicago Press Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry
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The University of Chicago Press The Chattering Mind
Book SynopsisFrom Plato's contempt for the madness of the multitude to Kant's lament for the great unthinking mass, the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatter that this disdain began to focus on the ordinary communicative practiceswhich sustain this form of human togetherness. The Chattering Mind explores the intellectual tradition inaugurated by Kierkegaard's work, tracing the conceptual history of everyday talk from his formative account of chatter to Heidegger's recuperative discussion of idle talk to Lacan's culminating treatment of empty speech--and ultimately into our digital present, where small talk on various social media platforms now yields big data for tech-savvy entrepreneurs. In this sense, The Chattering Mind is less a history of ideas than a book in search of a usable past. It is a study of how the modern world became anxious about everyday talk, figured in terms of the intelle
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The University of Chicago Press The Linguistic Turn Essays in Philosophical
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The University of Chicago Press The Force of Truth
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely intervention into the current debates on post-truth and Foucault’s significance for them. Lorenzini argues, again compellingly, that we need to steer clear of the false dilemma of either conceding that truth is only an effect of power, or strenuously defend the value of absolute truth against fake news and alternative facts. Foucault’s rejection of the Truth—truth understood as timeless and absolute—does not amount to a rejection of truth altogether. Rather, Foucault’s history of truth should be understood precisely as an attempt to criticize the claim that such an understanding of truth is necessary to stop our critical theories and practices from dissolving into relativism." -- Johanna Oksala * Critical Inquiry *"Lorenzini has established himself as the most brilliant interpreter of the work of Michel Foucault in his generation. Yet, even beyond this distinction, he has learned, as few people have, to use Foucault's work and perspective to approach topics that Foucault himself never discussed. Moreover, in his extraordinary genealogy of truth, presented in this book, Lorenzini brings together Foucault's writings with those of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell, among others, to give us a remarkable new way to think about some of the central issues concerning the idea of truth. Anyone who believes that analytic philosophy and continental philosophy cannot speak to one another can read this book as a superb example of how these two traditions of philosophy can mutually contribute, when read together, to the understanding of fundamental philosophical problems. If Lorenzini is the future of philosophy, philosophy is in excellent hands." -- Arnold I. Davidson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"In this urgent study, Lorenzini offers a powerful corrective to stubborn criticism of Foucault as a postmodern architect of the post-truth age. With stunning command of Foucault’s corpus, Lorenzini reconstructs Foucault’s history of truth as a political epistemology for our troubled times. This extraordinary book reshapes how we should understand—and resist—lying, disinformation, and other forms of political untruth." -- Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Syracuse University"This groundbreaking book refutes the dominant view of Foucault as a relativist and elevates the debate about his notion of truth to a new philosophical level. With exceptional clarity, Lorenzini develops an ethics and politics of truth-telling that is essential reading for everyone who seeks to take responsibility for their claims about the truth—in both theory and practice.” -- Martin Hägglund, Yale University“In this brilliant and provocative book, Lorenzini upends the conventional way that critics read Foucault as a precursor to our post-truth society. Through a meticulous reading of the Collège de France lectures, Lorenzini masterfully shows how Foucault’s lifelong passion for truth and truth-telling culminates in a powerful theory of truth as a political and ethical practice. A veritable tour de force.” -- Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Writing the History of Truth A History of Truth That Does Not Rely on “the Truth” Toward an Ethics and Politics of Truth-Telling The Force of Words and the Force of Truth 1. Truth-Event “A Little History of Truth in General” The Emergence of the Alethurgic Subject Confessional Sciences 2. Regimes of Truth Truth Obligations? Games and Regimes of Truth A Critical (An)archaeology Language Games and Games of Truth The Value of Truth Regimes of Truth and Spirituality 3. Truth as Force Cavell, Austin, and the PerlocutionaryParrhesia as Speech Act Unpredictability, Freedom, and Criticism Risk and Courage Transparency, or Parrhesia and Rhetoric 4. Dramatics of Truth Alethurgy Sincerity, Authenticity, Confession Putting the Truth to the Test of Life 5. Critique and Possibilizing Genealogy Beyond the Vindicatory-Subversive Dichotomy Foucault, Habermas, and the Question of Normativity The Genealogy of Critique Genealogy and We-Making Conclusion: Rethinking Critique Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Symbols that Stand for Themselves
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Columbia University Press The Present Personal
Book SynopsisWhile philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in being intimate with it. This book argues that philosophy's concern with abstract forms of linguistic meaning and the objective, propositional nature of language has obscured the singular human voice.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Philosophy and the Personal 1. Language and the Bell Jar A Picture Held Us Captive Language's Frame The Fact of the Propositional "This Is How Things Are" The Bell Jar 2. The Limits of Language and the Dream of Transcendence Philosophy and Disappointment Language: The Map Language and Silence: The Example of Abraham The Limits of Language and the Question of Freedom Before the Law of Language From Disappointment to Philosophy 3. Austin's Fireworks Austin's Fireworks: The Promise of the Pragmatic Turn How to Do Things with Austin The Act of Speech The Pragmatic and the Personal The Mirror at Hand: Afterthoughts 4. Personal Objects Heidegger (Before) and (After) Austin Heidegger's Pragmatic Interpretation of the Ordinary The Prison of the Ordinary The Aesthetic Elision of the Personal Van Gogh's Shoes Sabina's Hat 5. Language Unframed: Beauty as Model It's Funny Aesthetic Judgment The Language of Taste The Phenomenality of Your Words 6. Personal Time The Time Is Past Time and the Language of Possibility Time Prefaced Perhaps Present In My End Is My Beginning Epilogue Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Soul and Form
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Judith Butler 1. On the Nature and Form of the Essay: A Letter to Leo Popper 2. Platonism, Poetry and Form: Rudolf Kassner 3. The Foundering of Form Against Life: Soren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen 4. On the Romantic Philosophy of Life: Novalis 5. The Bourgeois Way of Life and Art for Art's Sake: Theodor Storm 6. The New Solitude and Its Poetry: Stefan George 7. Longing and Form: Charles-Louis Philippe 8. The Moment and Form: Richard Beer-Hofmann 9. Richness, Chaos, and Form: A Dialogue Concerning Lawrence Sterne 10. The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Paul Ernst Sources and References On Poverty of Spirit: A Conversation and a Letter Afterword: The Legacy of Form Katie Terezakis Notes Index
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Columbia University Press I Speak Therefore I Am
Book SynopsisWe understand our thoughts and ourselves through language, but what is the nature of language?Trade ReviewCombining wide learning, sharp insight, and deft style, these enlightening and intriguing vignettes carry us through the ages to reach considerable understanding of the distinctive linguistic capacity that sets humans apart from the rest of the natural world. -- Noam Chomsky, author of What Kind of Creatures Are We? There is much to find appealing in this pocket-size, readable historical panorama of important thinkers who have pondered the nature of language from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Nobody has drawn out the historical links in the story of language science in this way, and most nonspecialists would learn much from Moro's quite original observations. -- Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I Speak, Therefore I Am explores the intriguing connections between linguistics on the one hand and the sciences and philosophy on the other. The book is abundant with entertaining anecdotes of intellectual history that shed light on these connections. Moro plays the role of wise guide, and leads the reader through a remarkable journey. -- Robert Frank, Yale University The author manages the considerable feat of making insightful remarks about a wide variety of figures in a very short space. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface: Choice, Then Order, Then Chance, Finally Only Light 1. God 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Marcus Terentius Varro 5. Roger Bacon 6. Descartes 7. Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot 8. Sir William Jones 9. Hermann Osthoff and E. Karl Brugmann 10. Ferdinand de Saussure 11. Bertrand Russell 12. Martin Joos 13. Roman Jakobson 14. Joseph Greenberg 15. Eric H. Lenneberg 16. Niels Jerne 17. Noam Chomsky Finale Postscript Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
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Columbia University Press I Speak Therefore I Am
Book SynopsisWe understand our thoughts and ourselves through language, but what is the nature of language?Trade ReviewCombining wide learning, sharp insight, and deft style, these enlightening and intriguing vignettes carry us through the ages to reach considerable understanding of the distinctive linguistic capacity that sets humans apart from the rest of the natural world. -- Noam Chomsky, author of What Kind of Creatures Are We? There is much to find appealing in this pocket-size, readable historical panorama of important thinkers who have pondered the nature of language from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Nobody has drawn out the historical links in the story of language science in this way, and most nonspecialists would learn much from Moro's quite original observations. -- Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I Speak, Therefore I Am explores the intriguing connections between linguistics on the one hand and the sciences and philosophy on the other. The book is abundant with entertaining anecdotes of intellectual history that shed light on these connections. Moro plays the role of wise guide, and leads the reader through a remarkable journey. -- Robert Frank, Yale University The author manages the considerable feat of making insightful remarks about a wide variety of figures in a very short space. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface: Choice, Then Order, Then Chance, Finally Only Light 1. God 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Marcus Terentius Varro 5. Roger Bacon 6. Descartes 7. Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot 8. Sir William Jones 9. Hermann Osthoff and E. Karl Brugmann 10. Ferdinand de Saussure 11. Bertrand Russell 12. Martin Joos 13. Roman Jakobson 14. Joseph Greenberg 15. Eric H. Lenneberg 16. Niels Jerne 17. Noam Chomsky Finale Postscript Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
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Indiana University Press Words and Silences
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Indiana University Press Words and Silences
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Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame Du Lac Linguistics and Philosophy An Essay on the Philosophical Constants of Language
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Yale University Press Curiosity
Book SynopsisAn eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinkerTrade Review‘Curiosity is a meditation on what is important … it is best taken as if part of a long, fascinating conversation with an individual whose erudition and humanity leave one largely content to listen while nursing one’s own, parallel apprehensions.’ - Stoddard Martin, Jewish Chronicle -- Stoddard Martin * Jewish Chronicle *
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Yale University Press Decoding Chomsky
Book SynopsisA fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world's most prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist's perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much for his denunciations of US foreign policy as for his theories about language and mind. Knight explores the social and institutional context of Chomsky's thinking, showing how the tension between military funding and his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to establish a disconnect between science on the one hand and politics on the other, deepening a split between mind and body characteristic of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment. Provocative, fearless, and engaging, this remarkable study explains the enigma of one of the greatest intelTrade Review"Decoding Chomsky . . . may be the most in-depth meditation on 'the Chomsky problem' ever published. . . . A compelling read."—Tom Bartlett, Chronicle Review -- Tom Bartlett * Chronicle Review *"I can say that this is the best critique of Chomsky from the left that I have ever read. I disagree with Knight quite profoundly on a number of key issues, but in every chapter I learned something new and, in fact, found myself agreeing with him more and more as the book progressed."—Frederick Newmeyer, author of The Politics of Linguistics -- Frederick Newmeyer"Chris Knight has done the intellectual world a favour by exploring, with a critical and comprehending eye, the twists and turns of the thought of Noam Chomsky, surely one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Anyone who wants to understand the political and intellectual development of ideas that have dramatically altered modern science and political activism should read this book. We already have a plethora of hagiographies of Chomsky. This more critical examination of the two domains of Chomsky's thought and sources of his fame is unusual in its insight and in its frankness in "telling it like it is". Reading this book, I now better understand Chomsky's fame in terms of the zeitgeist which he rode so well to the zenith of the intellectual world. I strongly recommend Decoding Chomsky to anyone interested in the intellectual history of the last seventy years."—Daniel L. Everett, author of Language: The Cultural Tool -- Daniel Everett"This is Chomsky from a new perspective, the perspective of a social anthropologist. It connects his science with his politics in a novel and convincing way. Knight has dug deeper and made more interconnections than anyone has done before. The result is truly revelatory."—Michael Tomasello, author of A Natural History of Human Thinking -- Michael Tomasello"This is one of the most exciting scholarly books I have read in years. Decoding Chomsky will be required reading for anyone at all interested in the history of intellectual and political thought since the 1950s."—David Golumbia, author of The Cultural Logic of Computation -- David Golumbia"Extraordinary . . . will make uncomfortable reading for some because, while Knight celebrates Chomsky’s anti-racist and anti-imperialist politics, he reminds us of the other Chomsky . . . working in one of the Pentagon’s most prestigious laboratories."—Jackie Walker, Labour Briefing -- Jackie Walker * Labour Briefing *"Trenchant and compelling."—Marek Kohn, New Scientist -- Marek Kohn * New Scientist *"Few disagree that language has been a game-changer for the human species. But just how we came by language remains hotly contested. In Decoding Chomsky, Chris Knight strides into this minefield to bravely replace miraculous leaps and teleology with a proposal that actually makes evolutionary sense."—Sarah Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy"Social anthropologist Chris Knight has, almost miraculously, solved the Chomsky Problem. I’ve been trying to solve it for 20 years; I now feel the euphoria that one of us has solved it. Decoding Chomsky is an astonishingly well-written and researched volume that will probably be the most important work in the history of ideas, post World War II, that you’ll read for quite some time. It’s so lucid and well-researched and intellectually and emotionally gripping I couldn’t find a fault with it, though I tried."—Michael Johnson, Overweening Generalist -- Michael Johnson"Decoding Chomsky is a groundbreaking analysis of the wide chasm that now exists between modern language science and Chomsky’s view of language. A must-read for anyone trying to understand the history and trajectory of Chomsky’s ideas."—Gary Lupyan, University of Wisconsin -- Guy Lupyan"This book provides a fascinating account of the disconnect and symmetry between Chomsky’s value-free science and his science-free politics. Knight roots this in the tension between Chomsky ‘s detestation of the US military and his dependence on military funding for his linguistic research."—Les Levidow, editor, Science as Culture -- Les Levidow
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Violence of the Letter
Book SynopsisBy investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther’s challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organised domination and unprecedented levels of violence.Trade ReviewThe Violence of the Letter is exceptionally well written, and the style is original and enjoyable. It engages insightfully with domination, offers a reframing of the Oedipus complex, returns on the separation of soul and body, dissects the violence of alphabetization, and observes the interaction of writing, colonialism, and capitalism: a must read." - Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne"This book is a provocative, innovative, and engaging work . . . will prove an important and novel contribution to ‘theory’ in general and to ‘theory of writing’ in particular." - Ron Scapp, College of Mount Saint Vincent"McMahon activates a range of scholarship from neuroscience, literary theories, and cultural histories.The Violence of the Letter explores diverse sets of relations which about how the alphabet works as a particular kind of phenomena for writing. Its significance is a theory of literacy about the governing of social life in Western modernities." - Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of Contents Prelude Introduction Chapter 1. A Brief Technical Detour Chapter 2. The Trauma of Literacy Chapter 3. The Alphabet and Reproduction Chapter 4. Plato and the Forms of Alphabetic Writing Chapter 5. The Alphabet and Money Interlude Chapter 6. Letters of Fire and Blood Chapter 7. The Subject Is Always Alphabetized Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Wittgenstein Justice On the Significance of
Book SynopsisArgues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary conception of language, and hence a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.
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University of California Press Handbook of ProtoTibetoBurman System and
Book SynopsisPresents research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over 250 languages spoken in Southern China, the Himalayas, NE India, and peninsular Southeast Asia.
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University of California Press Race and the Brazilian Body
Book SynopsisBased on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, the author shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines.Trade Review"By highlighting new challenges and forms of resistance to racist ideologies, Roth-Gordon makes an outstanding contribution to a global dialogue on race that illustrates the hegemonic forces at play that maintain racial inequalities." * American Ethnologist *"Although decades of ink have already been spilled on the still contentious issue of racism in Brazil (and Latin America more broadly), Roth- Gordon’s book points to fruitful areas for future research." * Anthropological Quarterly *" A must-read for scholars studying race and politics in Brazil." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Roth-Gordon offers important in-sights in fewer than two hundred pages of clearly articulated text. . .the book is a rare pedagogical gem." * General Anthropology *"A remarkably accessible book that will be of great interest to scholars of race in Latin America who wish to incorporate an attention to language and practice to theirown work. The book’ s clear explanations of how the research was organized and executed likewise make it an excellent teaching tool for undergraduates and graduate students." * Journal of Latin American Studies *"[Roth-Gordon] presents [her findings] in an accessible narrative that would provide compelling reading for an undergraduate course on race or Brazil and might help us all better understand why famously 'cordial' Brazilians recently elected an uncordially racist president." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. BRAZIL'S "COMFORTABLE RACIAL CONTRADICTION" 2. "GOOD" APPEARANCES: RACE, LANGUAGE, AND CITIZENSHIP 3. INVESTING IN WHITENESS: MIDDLE-CLASS PRACTICES OF LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINE 4. FEARS OF RACIAL CONTACT: CRIME, VIOLENCE, AND THE STRUGGLE OVER URBAN SPACE 5. AVOIDING BLACKNESS: THE FLIP SIDE OF BOA APARENCIA 6. MAKING THE MANO: THE UNCOMFORTABLE VISIBILITY OF BLACKNESS IN POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS BRAZILIAN HIP-HOP CONCLUSION: "SEEING" RACE NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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University of California Press The Hum of the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Summing Up: Recommended." * CHOICE *An Alex Ross "Bookshelf" recommendation * The Rest is Noise *"The Hum of the World is a more-than-intriguing read and definitely one that will get you thinking about the role of sound within a cosmic context. . . . Recommended." * Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians *Table of ContentsPrelude Sound and Knowledge The Audiable: An Introduction Some Leitmotifs The Standard of Vision A Philosophy of Listening? Constructive Description Sight, Sound, and Language The Sound of Words Seeing, Saying, and Hearing The Audiable: Variations on a Theme Music in the Air “No Sound without Music” Language and the Human Lord Bacon’s Echoes Ripple Effects: Distant Voices The Infinite Broadcast Immanence Reading Transfigured: St. Augustine To the Life: The Image Moving Pictures Modern Times: The Cartoon The Sound of Meaning Music and the Audiable: A Suite in Three Movements Plato’s Singing School Musical Synesthesia The Music of Language The Soundscape Song Noise and Silence Fish, Flesh, or Fowl Sensory Hybrids “Waiting to Be the Music” Circle Songs Forty-Part Motets The Ether Elemental Media Elemental Fluids Writing the Soundscape Haunting Melodies The Lifelike: The Undead Beyond Words? 1 The Audiable and the Audible Into Silence Enchantments of the Name The Inaudible On Saying “I am” The Shriek Metal Here Comes That Song Again The Mirror of Silence Rhythmic Hearing Media All the Way Down The Auditory Window Cacophony: Dispossession (Beckett) Euphony: Repossession (Beckett) Worldly Dissonance Sounds of Battle: The Civil War Sounds of Battle: World War I Ulysses in Auschwitz Intermezzo Sounding Bodies Pandemonium? Songs of Entropy By Hand Past and Present Consciousness Acknowledgments Index
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University of California Press Substance and Structure of Language
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University of California Press Music and the Forms of Life
Book SynopsisInventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Lifeexamines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music invented auditory metaphors for the scientific elements of life (drive, pulse, sensibility, irritability, even metabolism), investigated the affinities and antagonisms between life and mechanism, and explored questions of whether and how mechanisms can come to life. The resulting changes in the conceptions of both life and music had wide cultural resonance at the time, and those concepts continued to evolve long after. A critical part of that evolution was a nineteenth-century shift in focus from moving androids to the projection of life in motion, culminating in the invention of cinema. Weaving together cultural and musical practices, Lawrence Kramer trTable of ContentsContents List of Musical Examples and Figures Introduction: Music and the Life of Statues 1 • From Clockwork to Pulsation I: Intensity and Drive 2 • From Clockwork to Pulsation II: Action and Feeling 3 • From Clockwork to Pulsation III: Metabolism 4 • 1812 Overtures: Wellington’s Victory and Live Action 5 • “Dear Listener” . . . : Music and the Invention of Subjectivity 6 • Waltzing Specters: Life, Perception, and Ravel’s “La Valse” 7 • The Musical Biome Epilogue: Sound and the Forms of Life Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Habermas
Book SynopsisIn the past decade the work of Jurgen Habermas has sparked off a series of lively debates over modernity and post--modernity, the nature of language, the interplay of law and politics and the dilemmas of morality.Trade Review"is to be highly recommended as a basic critical commentary for both specialist and non-specialist alike." Philosophical Studies "A valuable resource not only in providing an interest perspective on Habermas's work but in offering a guide to much of the relevant literature on it." Philosophical Quarterly . "A clear, cogent, sympathetic-critical discussion of issues." James L Marsh, Fordham University .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. The Dilemmas of Modernity2. The Strategy of the Theory of Communicative Action3. The Problems in the Theory of Communicative Action4. Discourse Ethics5. Communication and the Law6. Reading Habermas: Modernity versus Post-Modernity Jurgen Habermas: A Bibliography by Rene GortzenIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language Acquisition
Book SynopsisAn introduction to language acquisition, designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science. It is written from the perspective of theoretical linguistics, and uses Chomskyan generative grammar as a framework.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Linguistics and Language Acquisition. 1.1.Knowledge of Language: Competence and Performance. 1.2. Types of Linguistic Knowledge. 1.3. The Projection Problem. 1.4. Universal Grammar. 1.5. Outline. Notes. Further Reading. 2. Phonological Acquisition. 2.1. Speech Sounds. 2.1.1. How Sounds are Made. 2.1.2. Features. 2.2. Phonetics, Phonology and Language Variation. 2.3. Categorical Perception in Adults and Infants. 2.4. Early Speech Sounds. 2.5. Feature Acquisition. 2.6. Child Phonologies. 2.6.1. Segmental Rules. 2.6.2. Suprasegmentals. 2.7. Problems and Ideas. 2.8. Summary and Conclusions. Notes. Further Reading. Questions and Exercises. 3. Morphological Development and Innovation. 3.1. Types of Morphological Rules. 3.2. A Morphological Model. 3.3. Children's Knowledge of Level Ordering. 3.4. Rule Use and Innovation. 3.5. Problems and Unknowns. 3.6. A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. 3.7. Summary and Conclusions. Questions and Exercises. 4. The Acquisition of Syntax. 4.1. Syntactic Structures and Universal Grammar. 4.1.1. Basic Syntax. 4.1.2. Levels of Representation. 4.1.3. Universal Grammar: Principles and Parameters. 4.1.4. Modules of Government Binding Theory. 4.1.5. Government Binding Theory and the Acquisition of Syntax. 4.2. The Outer Course of Development. 4.3. Early Syntax. 4.3.1. Early Phrase Structure. 4.3.2. Subjectless Sentences. 4.4. Syntax in Pre-School Years. 4.4.1. Children's Knowledge Of the Binding Theory. 4.4.2. Bounding Theory and the Development of Movement. 4.4.3. Children's Grammar of Control. 4.4.4. Summary. 4.5. Syntactic Development after Age Six. 4.6. Syntactic Development: Some Popular Ideas Reconsidered. 4.6.1. 'Semantics First'. 4.6.2. 'Syntax is Late'. 4.7. Summary and Conclusions. Notes. Further Reading. Questions and Exercises. 5. Further Aspects of Syntactic and Semantic Development. 5.1. The Auxiliary System of English. 5.1.1. Auxiliary Verbs and Morphological Endings. 5.1.2. Negation and "Do" Support'. 5.1.3. A Syntactic Analysis. 5.2. The Acquisition of Auxiliary Systems: Syntax. 5.3. The Acquisition of Negation. 5.4. An Aside on Developmental Orders and Individual Development. 5.5. The Acquisition of Modality, Tense and Aspect. 5.5.1. Modality. 5.5.2. Tense and Aspect. 5.6. The Development of Word Meanings. 5.6.1. Word Meanings. 5.6.2. The Semantic Feature Hypothesis. 5.6.3. Challenges to the Semantic Feature Hypothesis. 5.7. Quantification and Logical Form. 5.8. Summary and Conclusions. Note. Further Reading. Questions and Exercises. 6. Cognition, Environment and Language Learning. 6.1. Innateness. 6.2. Input and Errors. 6.3. The Role of Universal Grammar in Language Development. 6.4. Learnability and Acquisition Principles. 6.4.1. Subjacency and Degree-n Learnability. 6.4.2. The Subset Principle. 6.5. Summary: Components of a Learning Model. 6.6. Some Questions and Problems in Acquisition Theory. 6.6.1. Markedness and Orders of Acquisition. 6.6.2. Continuity or Maturation?. 6.6.3. Parameter Setting vs. Hypothesis Testing. 6.7. The Limits of the Linguistic Model: Lexical Learning. 6.8. Motherese. 6.9. Language Development and Cognitive Development. 6.9.1. Specificity and the Logic of Learning. 6.9.2. Constructivism and Developmental Orders. 6.10. Summary and Conclusions. Notes. Further Reading. Questions and Exercises. 7. Performance Development. 7.1. Estimating Competence. 7.2. Adult Processing Mechanisms. 7.2.1. A Model. 7.2.2. Grammar vs. General Knowledge and Strategies. 7.2.3. Words-to-Message Processing. 7.3. Children's Sentence Processing. 7.3.1. On-line Computation of Syntactic Structure. 7.3.2. Strategies and Children's Comprehension. 7.3.3. Resolution Strategies. 7.4. Discourse Integration. 7.5. Summary and Conclusions. Notes. Further Reading. Questions and Exercises. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Search for the Perfect Language
Book SynopsisThe idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia.Trade Review"This is as much a history of the study of language and its origins as it is a tour de force pursuit using scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, thus providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European history." The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. From Adam to Confusio Linguarum. . Genesis 2, 10, 11. Before and After Europe. Side-effects. A Semiotic Model for Natural Language. 2. The Kabbalistic Pansemioticism. . The Reading of the Torah. Cosmic Permutability and the Kabbala of Names. The Mother Tongue. 3. The Perfect Language of Dante. Latin and the Vernacular. Language and Lingusitic Behavior. The First Gift to Adam. Dante and Universal Grammar. The Illustrious Vernacular. Dante and Abulafia. 4. The Ars Magna of Raymond Lull. . The Elements of the Ars Combinatoria. . The Alphabet and the Four Figures. The Arbor Scientarium. The Concordia Universalis of Nicholas of Cusa. 5. The Monogenetic Hypothesis and the Mother Tongues. . The Return to Hebrew. Postel's Universalistic Utopia. The Etymological Furor. Conventionalism, Epicureanism and Polygenesis. The Pre-Hebraic Language. The Nationalistic Hypotheses. Philosophers against Monogeneticism. A Dream that refused to Die. New Prospects for the Monogenetic Hypothesis. 6. Kabbalism and Lullism in Modern Culture. Magic Names and Kabbalistic Hebrew. Kabbalism and Lullism in the Steganographies. Lullian Kabbalism. Bruno: Ars Combinatoria and Infinite Worlds. Infinite Songs and Locutions. 7. The Perfect Language of Images. Horapollo's Hieroglyphica. The Egyptian Alphabet. Kircher's Egyptology. Kircher's Chinese. The Kircherian Ideology. Later Critics. The Egyptian vs. the Chinese Way. Images for Aliens. 8. Magic Language. Hypotheses. Dee's Magic Language. Perfection and Secrecy. 9. Polygraphies. Kircher's Polygraphy. Beck and Becher. First Attempts at a Content Organizations. 10. A Priori Philosophical Languages. . Bacon. Comenius. Descarted and Mersenne. The English Debate on Character and Traits. Primitives and Organization Content. 11. George Dalgarno. 12. John Wilkins. . The Tables and the Grammar. The Real Characters. The Dictionary: Synonyms, Periphrases, Metaphors. An Open Classification?. The Limits of Classification. The Hypertext of Wilkins. 13. Francis Lodwick. . 14. From Liebniz to the Encyclopédie. Characteristica and Calculus. The Problem of the Primitives. The Encyclopedia and the Aphabet of Thought. Blind Thought. The I Ching and the Binary Calculus. Side-effects. The 'Library' of Liebnitz and the Encyclopédie. 15. Philosophic Language from the Enlightenment to Today. . Eighteenth-century Projects. The Last Flowering of Philosophic Languages. Space Languages. Artificial Intelligence. Some Ghosts of the Perfect Language. 16. The Internatonal Auxiliary Languages. The Mixed Systems. The Babel of A Posteriori Languages. Esperanto. An Optimized Grammar. Theoretical Objections and Counter-objections. The 'Political' Possibilitites of an IAL. Limits and Effability of an IAL. Conclusion. Translation. The Gift to Adam. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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