Philosophy of language Books
Peter Lang AG Schriftsprachliche Positionierungen: Eine
Book SynopsisDas Buch liefert ein Modell für die Analyse schriftbasierter Positionierungen. Am Beispiel von Englischlehrwerken, die in der Zeit von 1760 bis 1841 für Sprecher/-innen des Deutschen erschienen sind, werden Handlungsoptionen der Produzierenden vorgestellt. Positionierungen zeigen sich in Form sprachlicher und typographischer Verfahren zur Signalisierung, Anbahnung und Aufrechterhaltung eines produzenten- und publikumsseitigen Engagements. Zudem umfassen sie Prozesse der Verortung von Personen im sozialen Gefüge und den Einsatz argumentativer Muster zur Kauf- und Nutzenüberzeugung. Die Positionierungsanalyse gibt Einblick in Sichtweisen, die im historischen Kulturraum Englischunterricht dominant waren und teils heute noch kommuniziert werden.
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Peter Lang AG The Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution – a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins together with introductory information on such topics as the theory of evolution, elements of linguistic theory, the neural infrastructure of language or the signalling theory.Table of ContentsLanguage origins – Language evolution – Evolutionism – History of linguistics – History of ideas – History of science – Glottogony – Glossogeny – Darwinism – Neo-Darwinian synthesis – Biological foundations of language
£50.04
Peter Lang AG The Semantic Theory of Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences. This project claims that cognitive problems need to be approached from the perspective of language. One of the results of this analysis is the thesis that the philosophical-linguistic legitimisation for the meta-epistemological project is the philosophy of Edmund Husserl from his Logical Investigations. This is the philosophy that makes it possible to speak reasonably of a close relation between thinking and language and provides thereby the legitimisation for this project.Table of ContentsAjdukiewicz’s semantic theory of knowledge – Polish analytical philosophy – Logical explication of traditional philosophical problems – A close relation between thinking and language – Concepts and judgements determined as to their contents – Husserl’s intentional philosophy of language
£42.89
Peter Lang AG Diminutive Constructions in English
Book SynopsisDiminutive constructions in English provides an analysis of form and meaning of English diminutives with selected suffixes and suffix combinations: -let, -ling, -ette, -er+ -s, -kin + -s, and -ie+ -kin +-s. The empirical study is done within the framework of Construction Grammar, Construction Morphology as depicted by Geert Booij (2010; 2013), and a Construction-Grammar-based approach to translation proposed by Izabela Szymańska (2011). On the basis of an exhaustive corpus of language material, the author proposes new schemas for English diminutives and related formations. Moreover, the work provides supporting evidence for the distinction of analytic A + N constructions as a valid type of diminutive formation in the English language.
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Peter Lang AG An Inquiry into the nature of aesthetic theory in
Book SynopsisThe primary objective of An Inquiry into the Nature of Aesthetic Theory in Its Relation to Theory of Knowledge in Kant’s Critical Philosophy is to investigate Kant’s aesthetic theory and its problematic relation to theory of knowledge in his transcendental philosophy. In the Critique of Judgment, Kant constructs his aesthetic theory by arguing that the aesthetic experience is based on a certain type of feeling, namely, the feeling of pleasure, rather than a concept. He grounds such a feeling on the aesthetic judgment of reflection. In spite of its nonconceptual and subjective characteristic, an aesthetic reflective judgment still has a claim to be universally valid. Here, the feeling of pleasure in beautiful is produced by the free harmonious relation between the imagination and the understanding. Judgment, in its reflective employment, does not determine its object but determines the feeling of pleasure in the judging subject. On the other hand, the categories, as pure concepts of the understanding, carry nearly all the weight in his theory of knowledge presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. The imagination, in this case, is strictly bound up by the rules that are imposed by the concepts of the understanding. By this way, judgment, as a cognitive faculty, determines its object and gains its objective validity. In this context, this book discusses the nature of Kant’s aesthetic theory and the components that constitute a pure aesthetic judgment of reflection and attempts to clarify its proper place in critical philosophy regarding his theory of knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ............................................................................................. 11 1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 13 2 Kant’s Theory of Reflective Judgment .................................................. 19 2.1. General Description of Reflective Judgment ........................................... 19 2.2. The Problematic Relation between Reflective and Determinative Judgments ..................................................................................................... 22 2.2.1. Further Remarks on the Issue .......................................................... 28 2.3. The Structure of Kant’s Exposition of the Introductions ....................... 32 2.4. The Principle of Purposiveness, the Principle of Systematicity and Nature: The Need for Reflective Judgment ....................................... 33 2.5. The Supplementary Notions: Technic of Nature, the Specification of Nature, Analogy and Symbol ................................................................ 46 2.6. Kant’s Problematic Transition from the Principle of Purposiveness and the Principle of Systematicity to the Aesthetic Theory ........................................................................................................... 57 2.7. The Arguments on the Problematic Relation between the Theory of Reflective Judgment and the Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection ....... 60 3 Kant’s Theory of Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection ....................... 75 3.1. General Description of Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection .................... 75 3.2. Disinterested Nature of Aesthetic Judgment of Reflection .................... 78 3.3. Subjective Universality: The Universal Voice .......................................... 81 3.3.1. “The Key to the Critique of Taste”: The First Rupture .................. 87 3.3.1.1. The Two-Acts View or the Double Process of Reflection ......................................................................... 913.3.1.2. The Counter-Arguments to the Two-Acts View and Alternative Explanations ........................................... 100 3.4. Kant’s Aesthetic Formalism: The Subjective Formal Purposiveness as the Purposiveness without a Purpose ...................... 106 3.4.1. Definitions and the Problem of Causal Relation: The Second Rupture ............................................................................... 107 3.4.2. Transcendental Aesthetic and the Matter of “Aesthetic Form” . 114 3.5. Exemplary Necessity and Sensus Communis ........................................ 124 3.6. The Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties as the Great Narrative without a Narrative: The Third Rupture ................................................. 129 3.6.1. Deduction and Kant’s Expositions ................................................ 130 3.6.2. Exemplary Arguments for the Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties ............................................................................................ 137 4 Stage I: Re-Considering the Faculties: Imagination (and Understanding) ............................................................................................ 149 4.1. General Descriptions ................................................................................ 149 4.2. The Position of Imagination in “A” Deduction ...................................... 151 4.3. The Position of Imagination in “B” Deduction ..................................... 155 4.3.1. Figurative Synthesis and Intellectual Synthesis ........................... 160 4.4. Schematism and the Implications of the Synthesis of Imagination .... 164 4.4.1. The Difference between the Apprehension of an Event and the Apprehension of an Object ...................................................... 168 4.5. Re-Examination of the Free Harmony of the Cognitive Faculties: The Last Attempt ...................................................................... 172 4.6. Concluding Remarks ................................................................................ 194 5 Stage II: Re-Considering the Faculties: Reason (and Understanding) ............................................................................................ 197 5.1. Reason and Its Relation to Understanding in the System of Transcendental Dialectic .......................................................................... 197 5.2. Transcendental Ideas as the Pure Concepts of Reason ........................ 2025.3. Cosmological Ideas and the Synthesis of Conditions .......................... 205 5.3.1. The Distinction between Mathematical Synthesis and Dynamical Synthesis ....................................................................... 207 5.4. Reason as a Higher Faculty: Regulative Employment of the Ideas ..... 212 5.5. Re-Examination of the Principles and the Nature as the Ground for the Reflective Judgment ..................................................................... 220 5.6. Concluding Remarks ................................................................................ 224 6 Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 227 Bibliography ....................................................................................................... 235
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Peter Lang AG The Hermeneutics of Translation: A Translator’s
Book SynopsisThis is the first monograph to examine the notion of a translator’s competence from the perspective of Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics, an aspect not yet given rigorous critical attention either by translatologists or philosophers. The study’s main objective is to not only depict different conceptualizations of translation as based on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophy of understanding, but also develop a theory of a translator’s hermeneutic competences, a unique approach as contrasted with the main trends and tendencies in modern translation studies. It also delves into Gadamer’s reflections on understanding, history, text and interpretation. Finally, this monograph proves that translation studies and hermeneutics are more complementary upon closer inspection than one could think.Table of ContentsTranslational Hermeneutics – Gadamerian philosophy of language – Gadamerian philosophy of translation – intralingual translation – Translation as the Realization of the Hermeneutic Circle – Translation as the Concretization of Effective History – Translation as a Hermeneutic Conversation – A Translator’s Hermeneutic Competence
£46.08
Peter Lang AG Kulturwissenschaftlich-interkulturelle
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Peter Lang AG Thought-Sign-Symbol: Cross-Cultural
Book SynopsisThis unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of spirituality, multiple forms of representation, as well as spheres of religious beliefs and practices. The volume is an outcome of the Signum-Idea-Verbum-Opus project initiated by Umberto Eco’s keynote address during his visit at the University of Łódź in 2015. More theoretical insights and further explorations into contemporary semiosphere can be found in Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Signs, Signification and Communication and Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres and Representations, published by Peter Lang.Table of Contentsinterface of language, culture and religion – semiotic nature of religious practices, representations and artefacts – religious symbolism – interface of the verbal and the visual – religious discourse as product and process
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Peter Lang AG Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western
Book SynopsisThrough the burgeoning fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities, this edition examines the changing conception of human subjectivity, agency, and citizenship as shaped by the dynamic interplays between nature, technology, science, and culture. The proposed ‘symbiotic turn’, (the awareness of the multitude of interactions and mutual interdependencies among humans, non-humans and their environment) aspires to explore the complex recompositions of the “human” in the 21st century. By organizing and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue at multiple levels, both in theory and practice, Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies is suggested as a new narrative about the biosphere and technosphere, which is embodied literarily, philosophically, and artistically.Table of ContentsContents – Pramod K. Nayar Looking through the Symbiotic Lens – Francesca Ferrando “We Are The Earth”: Posthumanist Realizations in the Era of the Anthropocene – Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki Introduction: Towards a Symbiosis of Posthumanism and Environmental Humanities or Paving Narratives for the Symbiocene PART I Framing the Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies – Roberto Marchesini Somatizing Alterity: Technology and Hybridization in the Post- Human Era – Teresa Heffernan Rethinking “Queer Kin Groups”: Cyborgs, Animals, and Machines – Mieke Bal How to Say It? Symbiosis as Inter- Ship – Peggy Karpouzou Symbiotic Citizenship in Posthuman Urban Ecosystems: Smart Biocitiesin Speculative Fiction PART II Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Literature and Art – Bruce Clarke Cracking Open: Ecological Communication in Richard Powers’ The Overstory – Irene Sanz Alonso Posthuman Subjects in Rosa Montero’s Los tiempos del odio – Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Cyber body as Medium of Art. The Case of Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas – Dimitris Angelatos Folded Tactility: Tracing Metabolic Artistic Practices in Contemporary Sculpture – David Fancy Geomancy vs Technomancy: Resonance, Divination and Gilbert Simondon’s Thought PART III Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Continental Philosophy – Nicole AndersonAnimal- Human Differences: The Deconstructive Force of Posthumanism – Fred Evans Deleuzian Cosmopolitanism: From the Capitalist Axiomatic to the “Chaosmocene” – Glen A. Mazis A Posthumanist Truly Back to the Things Themselves: Merleau- Ponty’sEmbodied Phenomenology and Literary Language – Cassandra Falke Eco- Phenomenology in the Dark – Avital Ronell Nietzsche Apologizes for the Weather: A Storm Chaser’s Report – Notes on Contributors – Index
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Peter Lang AG El Nuevo chico diccionario judeo-español-francés
Book SynopsisEl presente volumen contiene la edición anotada en letras latinas de los dos tomos del Nuevo chico diccionario udeo-españolfrancés, precedida de un amplio estudio filológico, nutrido parcialmente de los trabajos en algunos casos inéditos presentados por los autores durante estos años de trabajo en diferentes reuniones científicas. En dicho estudio se reseña brevemente la figura del autor, se describe el texto, se analiza su contenido, se rastrean sus posibles fuentes e incluso se señalan las referencias al mismo en la bibliografía clásica de autores como Cynthia M. Crews, Max A. Luria, Julius Subak o Max Leopold Wagner. La obra se completa con unos útiles índices alfabéticos en los que se pueden localizar no solo las voces judeoespañolas que aparecen incluidas alefáticamente en el Nuevo chico diccionario udeo-españolfrancés cuya ordenación se respeta en la presente edición, sino también aquellas otras posibles lecturas del original aljamiado recogidas en nuestras notas.
£48.06
Peter Lang AG Harmony Effects Across Language and Perception:
Book SynopsisThis book offers original insights around a fascinating idea: Perception and the rest of cognition, crucially including language, are closer to each other than the Cartesian tradition dared to dream. By combining recent results in cognitive neuroscience, the philosophy of perception, and the syntax of natural language, the book demonstrates that there is continuity between higher and lower cognition. Percepts from perceptual experience are propositional, conceptual, and they are not divorced from objective reality. Human cognition is merged with the natural world, able to reflect it in complex ways and interact with it in modalities that are since the very beginning computationally complex and rich in content.Table of Contentssyntax – semantics – grammar – perception – philosophy of perception – philosophy of mind – philosophy of language – percepts – concepts – propositions – reference – representation – belief – epistemology – phenomenology – verbs of perception – conscious experience – dualism – higher cognition – lower cognition
£38.07
Peter Lang AG Translating a Worldview: Linguistic Worldview in
Book SynopsisThe book offers a view of the translation of a literary text as a reconstruction of the non-standard linguistic worldview embedded in that text, and emerging from the standard, conventional worldview present in a given language and culture. This translation strategy (and the ensuing detailed decisions) is explained via the metaphor of two icebergs, representing the source and target texts as iceberg tips, resting on the vast foundations of the source and target languages and cultures. This thesis is illustrated by analyses of English translations of two poems by Wisława Szymborska, the 1996 Nobel Prize winner: „Rozmowa z kamieniem“ (Conversation with a Stone/Rock) and „Chmury“ (Clouds).Table of Contentslanguage and culture in translation – linguistic worldview in literary translation – the metaphor of two icebergs as a translation model – poetry of Wisława Szymborska in English translations – an ethnolinguistic approach to literary translation – cognitive poetics
£38.07
Peter Lang AG Philosophical Approaches to Language and
Book SynopsisThis two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contributions illustrate how these strands of research are interconnected and show the importance of such a broad outlook. The aim is to throw light upon some of the key questions in language and communication and also to inspire, inform, and integrate a community of researchers in philosophical linguistics. Volume one concentrates on fundamental theoretical topics. This means considering vital questions about what languages are and how they relate to reality, and describing some of the key areas of thought in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Contributors also discuss how philosophy influences related fields such as translation, pragmatics, and argumentation.Table of Contentstheoretical linguistics – linguistic ontology – ordinary language philosophy – continental philosophy of language – hermeneutics – philosophy of argumentation – pragmatics and discourse analysis – philosophy of translation – Heidegger – Gadamer – Chomsky
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Peter Lang AG Interactive and Interpersonal Meanings of
Book SynopsisThe study offers an analysis of three grammatical constructions specifically employed in direct performance of directive speech acts in Polish. Constructions of this type have not yet been widely analyzed, as research pertaining to the relation between the grammatical structure of an utterance and its pragmatic effects has focused mainly on indirect speech acts. The study combines a discussion of a wide range of corpus examples with a detailed analysis of hand-picked examples situated in specific contexts. The aim is to show how the grammatical make-up of a construction functions with contextual factors to bring about a range of pragmatic effects pertaining to the speakers’ interaction and their interpersonal relation. The framework of the study is the theory of cognitive grammar.Table of Contentsinteractive and interpersonal meanings of directive constructions in Polish – cognitive grammar – pragmatic import of the perfective/imperfective contrast in the Polish imperative – pragmatic distance – import of distance-regulating structures in Polish – intersubjectivity – clausal grounding – construal
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Peter Lang AG Philosophical Approaches to Language and
Book SynopsisThis two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contributions illustrate how these strands of research are interconnected and show the importance of such a broad outlook. The aim is to throw light upon some of the key questions in language and communication and also to inspire, inform, and integrate a community of researchers in philosophical linguistics. Volume two presents analyses of several fundamental concepts and studies in which they are applied empirically. These include the linguistic topics of assertion, vagueness, and disagreement, and the philosophical themes of belief, normativity, and thought. These chapters provide unique insight into the role of philosophy in the contemporary study of communication.Table of Contentspropositional contents – assertion and denial – vagueness and subjectivity – disagreement – iterated attitudes – expectations – semantics/pragmatics distinction – experimental philosophy – normativity of meaning – beliefs – associative exportation
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Peter Lang AG From Cognitivism to Ecologism in Language Studies
Book SynopsisRecent decades of studies have been human-centred while zooming in on cognition, verbal choices and performance. (…) [and] have provided interesting results, but which often veer towards quantity rather than quality findings. The new reality, however, requires new directions that move towards a humanism that is rooted in holism, stressing that a living organism needs to refocus in order to see the self as a part of a vast ecosystem. Dr Izabela Dixon, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland This volume is a collection of eight chapters by different authors focusing on ecolinguistics. It is preceded by a preface (..) underlin[ing] the presence of ecolinguistics as a newly-born linguistic theory and practice, something that explains the mosaic of content and method in the various chapters, with a more coherent approach being the aim for future research. Prof. Harald Ulland, Bergen University, NorwayTable of Contentsecolinguistics – newparadigmatic – holism – language education – learning – discourse – concept of tolerance – medical discourse – ecocentric storytelling
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Peter Lang AG Utilisation Des Metaphores Dans Les Langues
Book SynopsisLe volume présente une exploration de l''utilisation des métaphores dans un spectre étendu de strates linguistiques. Il se penche sur la dynamique des métaphores dans les langues standards et non standards, y compris dans le registre argotique, offrant une analyse nuancée de leurs variations diasystémiques.L''ouvrage propose un cadre d''étude multidimensionnel, combinant des perspectives linguistiques, littéraires et médiatiques. Il traite de questions complexes telles que la fonction et le traitement des métaphores dans différentes langues et leurs variétés, dans une perspective lexicale, phraséologique et discursive. L''accent est également mis sur le traitement lexicographique des expressions métaphoriques, soulignant l''importance de la documentation et de la classification de ces tournures linguistiques afin de fournir une compréhension approfondie du rôle des métaphores dans des langues.
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Peter Lang AG Diversity in Cognition
Book SynopsisThis book encompasses a number of original studies on diversity in cognition. This topic is examined from a wide range of perspectives, including psycholinguistics, linguistic relativity, applied linguistics as well as second language and bilingualism research. The methodological approaches vary from linguistic descriptions and corpus analyses to experimental methods such as eye-tracking or speech elicitation. The book shows that diversity in cognition plays a key role in linguistics encoding, event conceptualization, reception of music and general literacy. Cognitive diversity can even be seen to shape human interaction and communication. The book offers new insights and fresh approaches to the discourse on diversity in and beyond cognition. Table of ContentsTable of contents - Barbara Mertins - Introduction to the book - Maryam Fatemi - Synchronic Overview of Grammatical Gender Marking in Indo-European Languages - Kerstin Leimbrink, Janina Harwardt, Ian Lowes & Barbara Mertins - Zusammenhänge von Sprache, Musik und Kognition: Eine explorative Studie zu sprachspezifischen Merkmalen in deutschen, tschechischen, französischen und englischen Volksliedern - Anna Marklová and Barbara Mertins - Perception of Goal-oriented Locomotion Events in Monolingual and Bilingual Adults – Free-viewing eye-tracking study - Christopher J. Hall - English as a Lingua Franca as an expression of linguistic diversity: a cognitive perspective - Hanna S. Andersen - With Norwegian eyes. The verbalization of goal-oriented motion events in Norwegian - Katrin Odermann - Mehrsprachigkeit und Schriftspracherwerb: Vorteile von Mehrsprachigkeit durch früh entwickeltes metalinguistisches Bewusstsein - Hendrik Trescher - Leichte Sprache – Anlass zur Diskussion - Renate Delucchi Danhier - Diversitätsembleme als individualisierte Visualisierungsform persönlicher Daten im Sinne des Datenhumanismus
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Peter Lang AG El Metaverso Y La Virtualidad Cultural Literatura
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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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£180.00
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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£22.50
Universitatsverlag Winter Geist, Geschichte, Wirklichkeit: Grundfragen Der
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Tectum Verlag Freimaurerei in Der Fruhen Aufklarungszeit:
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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 Leibliche Kommunikation: Studien Zum Werk Johann
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V&R unipress GmbH Demonstrative Bezugnahme und die
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V&R unipress GmbH Die philosophische Schnecke: In der Philosophie
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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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D.K. Printworld Chomskys Internalist View of Language
Book SynopsisThis volume endeavours to get at Chomsky's philosophy of language in the context of its difference from Wittgenstein's account of language, and also other views of language which are in line with Wittgenstein explanation. Since Chomsky's preference is grammatical or structural approach to language, which is innate, he interprets knowledge of language as knowledge of rule-governing sentence formation. Obviously, Chomsky approves of Private Language with no concern for the theory of communication which is rooted in the use of language. In other words, Chomsky is not interested in successful communication which takes place only in social practices. But, according to what we have discussed in this book, successful communication or speech act is possible by what people normally do according to social convention. In short, since Chomsky depends upon the structure or innateness of internalist approach to language, he cannot be accounted for social interpretation of language, which is needed for successful communication.
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Herder Editorial Mesianismo en la filosofía contemporánea
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PENSAR ES DECIR NO
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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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Aarhus University Press In Search of a Language for the Mind-Brain: Can
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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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John Benjamins Publishing Co The Shared Mind: Perspectives on
Book SynopsisThe cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional “theory of mind” approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.Table of Contents1. Foreword. Shared minds and the science of fiction: Why theories will differ (by Trevarthen, Colwyn); 2. 1. Intersubjectivity: What makes us human? (by Zlatev, Jordan); 3. Part I. Development; 4. 2. Understanding others through primary interaction and narrative practice (by Gallagher, Shaun); 5. 3. The neuroscience of social understanding (by Barresi, John); 6. 4. Engaging, sharing, knowing: Some lessons from research in autism (by Hobson, R. Peter); 7. 5. Coming to agreement: Object use by infants and adults (by Rodriguez, Cintia); 8. 6. The role of intersubjectivity in the development of intentional communication (by Brinck, Ingar); 9. 7. Sharing mental states: Causal and definitional issues in intersubjectivity (by Susswein, Noah); 10. Part II. Evolution; 11. 8. Evidence for intentional and referential communication in great apes? (by Pika, Simone); 12. 9. The heterochronic origins of explicit reference (by Leavens, David A.); 13. 10. The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis (by Zlatev, Jordan); 14. 11. First communions: Mimetic sharing without theory of mind (by Hutto, Daniel D.); 15. Part III. Language; 16. 12. The central role of normativity in language and linguistics (by Itkonen, Esa); 17. 13. Intersubjectivity in the architecture of language system (by Verhagen, Arie); 18. 14. Intersubjectivity in interpreted interactions: The interpreter's role in co-constructing meaning (by Janzen, Terry); 19. 15. Language and the signifying object: From convention to imagination (by Sinha, Chris); 20. Author index; 21. Subject index
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