Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Books
Cambridge University Press Conversation Analysis Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
Book SynopsisWe live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This is the first ever book-length linguistic introduction to conversation analysis (CA), the field that has done more than any other to illuminate the mechanics of interaction. Starting by locating CA by reference to a number of cognate disciplines investigating language in use, it provides an overview of the origins and methodology of CA. By using conversational data from a range of languages, it examines the basic apparatus of sequence organisation: turn-taking, preference, identity construction and repair. As the basis for these investigations, the book uses the twin analytic resources of action and sequence to throw new light on the origins and nature of language use.Trade Review'This exciting new book is authoritatively and engagingly written: the coverage of issues in conversation analysis and the organisation of conversation is first class.' Gareth Walker, Sheffield UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: why study conversation?; 2. Towards an understanding of action: origins and perspectives; 3. Why that, now?: position and composition in interaction; 4. Interaction in time: the centrality of turntaking; 5. The structure of sequences I: preference organisation; 6. The structure of sequences II: knowledge and authority in the construction of identity; 7. Halting progressivity: the organisation of repair; 8. Conclusion: discovering order.
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Cambridge University Press Cicero Philippics 12 Philippics III Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Book SynopsisThis edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six months after the murder of Julius Caesar in March 44 BC, offer a scathing account of the early years and the rise to power of Mark Antony, Caesar's chief lieutenant. The period covered by these speeches (roughly 63â44 BC) is an important one because the Roman state was in transition from Republic to Empire. The Second Philippic not only gives us Cicero's assessment of his own political career and place in Roman history from a perspective late in life, but it also provides a vivid eyewitness account of how the dominance first of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony was shifting the locus of power from the Senate and Roman aristocracy to a single dynast.Trade Review'All the extras which I like are here - the map of the roman world … a map of the centre of Rome … and a calendar summarising the year 44 which is surely vital for such a work'. JACTTable of ContentsPreface; References and abbreviations; Map 1: the Roman world in 50 BC; Map 2: Rome in the Late Republic; Calendar of events of 44 BC; Introduction; 1. Historical background; 2. Survey of the primary sources; 3. The Philippics; 4. Prose rhythm; 5. The text; M. TVLLI CICERONIS IN M. ANTONIVM ORATIO PHILIPPICA PRIMA; M. TVILLI CICERONIS IN M. ANTONIVM ORATIO PHILIPPICA SECVNDA; Commentary; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of William James
Book SynopsisThis 2004 book is an accessible introduction to the full range of the philosophy of William James. It portrays that philosophy as containing a deep division between a Promethean type of pragmatism and a passive mysticism. Richard Gale attempts to harmonize these pragmatic and mystical perspectives.Trade Review'What makes the book exceptional is its intimate grasp of James's thought and of the thinker behind it …' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'Carefully argued, written with gusto and full of wise-cracking bonhomie...a major stimulus to the understanding of James's philosophy.' Philosophical Quarterly'… presents a deeper, more systematic picture of James's philosophy than any other presently available.' MindTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Promethean Pragmatist: 1. The ethics of Prometheanism; 2. The willfulness of belief; 3. The freedom of belief; 4. The will to believe; 5. The ethics of truth; 6. The semantics of 'truth'; 7. Ontological relativism: William James meets Poo-bah; Part II. The Passive Mystic: 8. The self; 9. The I-thou quest for intimacy and religious mysticism; 10. The Humpty Dumpty intuition and backyard mysticism; 11. An attempt at one world interpretation of James.
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Cambridge University Press Arguing and Thinking A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology European Monographs in Social Psychology
Book SynopsisMichael Billig's rhetorical approach has been key to the discursive turn in the social sciences. His witty and original book examines argumentation and its psychological importance in human conduct, and traces the connections between ancient rhetorical ideas and modern social psychology. In a new introduction, he offers further reflections on rhetoric and social psychology, discusses the recent scholarship, and allows some forgotten voices in the history of rhetoric to be heard.Trade Review'A breakthrough book in three different fields: sociology, psychology, and the rhetoric of inquiry … Arguing and Thinking brings together the two fragments of our broken culture. It's science and humanism combined, as of course they should be.' Deirdre McCloskey, University of Iowa'Arguing and thinking should be … one of the most significant social psychological works of the decade. With its distinctive, argumentative model of human nature and rich collation of understudied sources, this work will become one of the classics of my own library.' Gary Alan Fine, Contemporary Sociology'Arguing and thinking stands as a sparkling contribution to the conversation between the humanities and the social sciences … [It] deserves to be much more widely known and used in our classrooms as well as in our scholarship.' Liz Jenkins, Philosophy and Rhetoric'Arguing and thinking is a book of rare significance … there are many worthy tomes which everyone quotes but no one reads. This is not one of them. It is a seminal work that should be read, and read by all.' Stephen Reicher, British Journal of Social PsychologyTable of ContentsSecond thoughts, second arguments: a new introduction; 1. Antiquarian psychology; 2. Rules, roles and arguments; 3. Protagoras and the origins of rhetoric; 4. The science of persuasion; 5. The art of witchcraft; 6. Categorization and particularization; 7. Advocacy and attitudes; 8. Dilemmas of common sense; 9. The spirit of contradiction.
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Cambridge University Press Introducing Semantics
Book SynopsisSemantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to the subject for undergraduate students. It not only equips students with the concepts they need in order to understand the main aspects of semantics, it also introduces the styles of reasoning and argument which characterise the field. It contains more than 200 exercises and discussion questions designed to test and deepen readers'' understanding. More inclusive than other textbooks, it clearly explains and contrasts different theoretical approaches, summarises current debates, and provides helpful suggestions for further reading. Examples are drawn both from major world languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish and English, and from minority ones. The book also highlights the connections between semantics and the wider study of human language in psychology, anthropology, and linguistics itself.Trade Review'… an impressively wide - and relatively theory neutral - introduction to the field, whilst maintaining interest and clarity throughout. It is particularly strong in its use of cross-linguistic data from a wide variety of languages, which should appeal to those studying linguistics. Undergraduates will find it accessible and engaging, but there is also sufficient content to challenge more advanced students.' Bethan Davies, University of Leeds'… an excellent introductory textbook for the instruction of meaning in language, presenting complex concepts in a clear but detailed fashion. It remains remarkably neutral without sacrificing rigor, and will be an extremely useful teaching tool given the correct setting.' The Linguist ListTable of Contents1. Meaning in the empirical study of language; 2. Meaning and definition; 3. The scope of meaning I: external context; 4. The scope of meaning II: interpersonal context; 5. Analysing and distinguishing meanings; 6. Logic as a representation of meaning; 7. Meaning and cognition I: categorisation and cognitive semantics; 8. Meaning and cognition II: formalising and simulating conceptual representations; 9. Meaning and morphosyntax I: the semantics of grammatical categories; 10. Meaning and morphosyntax II: verb meaning and argument structure; 11. Semantic variation and change.
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Cambridge University Press Relevance Theory
Book SynopsisThe definitive introduction to relevance theory. It covers the theory from the basics up, building a complete picture and providing the basis for further research in one, easy-to-read textbook. Worked examples in the text support student learning and exercises test understanding.Trade Review'A beautifully clear, insightful and entertaining overview of relevance theory, which takes readers from first principles to recent developments in a warm, witty and fair-minded way. I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in how communication works.' Deirdre Wilson, University College LondonTable of ContentsPart I. Overview: 1. A first outline; 2. Origins and alternatives: Grice, relevance theory and modern pragmatics; 3. Principles of relevance; 4. Explaining inferences; Part II. Details and Developments: 5. Explicature and implicature; 6. Types of explicature; 7. Types of implicature; 8. Lexical pragmatics; 9. Figurative language: metaphor; 10. Figurative language: irony; 11. Linguistic semantics; 12. Conclusion: applications and recent developments; Appendix: key notions of relevance theory.
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Cambridge University Press Quantification Research Surveys in Linguistics
Book SynopsisQuantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational work in the 1970s. It paints a vivid picture of generalized quantifiers and Boolean semantics. It explains how the discovery of diverse scope behaviour in the 1990s transformed the view of quantification, and how the study of the internal composition of quantifiers has become central in recent years. It presents different approaches to the same problems, and links modern logic and formal semantics to advances in generative syntax. A unique feature of the book is that it systematically brings cross-linguistic data to bear on the theoretical issues, covering French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, Telugu (Dravidian), and Shupamem (Grassfield Bantu) and points to formal semantic literature involving quantification in around thirty languages.Trade Review'Extraordinary scholarship. A superb technical exposition, and an invaluable resource on the nature of quantification cross-linguistically.' Christopher Potts, Stanford University'The discovery of a notation to represent reasoning with quantifiers was a Copernican moment in the history of logic. It led generations of scholars to seek some reflection of the quantifiers of the idealized notation in the vicissitudes of natural language. No one has done more to shake loose the simplifications and idealizations that have resulted than Anna Szabolcsi. Her long awaited volume is essential reading for any philosopher, logician, or linguist interested in the myriad ways in which natural languages express quantification.' Jason Stanley, Rutgers UniversityTable of Contents1. What this book is about and how to use it; 2. Generalized quantifiers and their elements: operators and their scopes; 3. Generalized quantifiers in non-nominal domains; 4. Some empirically significant properties of quantifiers and determiners; 5. Potential challenges for generalized quantifiers; 6. Scope is not uniform and not a primitive; 7. Existential scope versus distributive scope; 8. Distributivity and scope; 9. Bare numeral indefinites; 10. Modified numerals; 11. Clause-internal scopal diversity; 12. Towards a compositional semantics of quantifier words.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Language of Humour 16 English Language Series
Book SynopsisThe broad aim of this lively and engaging book is to examine relationships between the linguistic patterns, the stylistic functions, and the social and cultural contexts of humour. The material used in illustration is of corresponding breadth: schoolyard jokes, graffiti, aphorisms, advertisements, arguments, anecdotes, puns, parodies, passages of comic fiction, all come under Dr Nash''s scrutiny.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Meaning in Interaction An Introduction to
Book SynopsisMeaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics is a comprehensive introductory text which discusses the development of pragmatics - its aims and methodology - and also introduces themes that are not generally covered in other texts.Jenny Thomas focuses on the dynamic nature of speaker meaning, considering the central roles of both speaker and hearer, and takes into account the social and psychological factors involved in the generation and interpretation of utterances. The book includes a detailed examination of the development of Pragmatics as a discipline, drawing attention to problems encountered in earlier work, and brings the reader up to date with recent discussion in the field. The book is written principally for students with no previous knowledge of pragmatics, and the basic concepts are covered in considerable detail. Theoretical and more complicated information is highlighted with examples that have been drawn from the media, fiction and real-life interTrade Review"An understanding of pragmatics is essential in order to make learners effective as well as affective communicators. Meaning in Interaction provides an excellent introduction to this goal."BBC EnglishTable of Contents1. What is pragmatics?2. Speech acts3. Conversational implicature4. Approaches to pragmatics5. Pragmatics and indirectness6. Theories of politeness7. The construction of meaning
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Kristeva Reader
Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva is a theorist and has been acclaimed for her work in linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. This is an introduction to her work in English, containing a range of essays from all phases of her career.Trade Review"Toril Moi, with her usual exegetical lucidity, makes sense for us of the immensely difficult and varied aspects of Julia Kristeva's intellectual project, characterized by Moi as an attempt to 'think the unthinkable'." London Review of Books "Excellently edited and introduced by Toril Moi." City LimitsTable of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 I Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality 23 1 The System and the Speaking Subject 24 2 Word, Dialogue and Novel 34 3 From Symbol to Sign 62 4 Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science 74 5 Revolution in Poetic Language 89 II Women, Psychoanalysis. Politics 137 6 About Chinese Women 138 7 Stabat Mater 160 8 Women’s Time 187 9 The True-Real 214 10 Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents 238 11 Why the United States? 272 12 A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident 292 13 Psychoanalysis and the Polis 301 Index 321
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Utterances
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson''s Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.Trade Review"A clearly written textbook. Punctuated with straightforward exercises and a useful recommended reading list." Journal of PragmaticsTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Fundamentals:. 1. Communication and the Context. 1.1. What do Speakers Communicate?. 1.2. Understanding and Inference. 1.3. The Context. Recommended Reading. Notes. 2. Relevance. 2.1. Standards in Communication. 2.2. The Principle of Relevance. Recommended Reading. Notes. 3. Pragmatics, Linguistics and Literature. 3.1. Carving up Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatists. 3.2. Promises and Poetry. Recommended Reading. Notes. Part II: Explicature:. 4. Explicating and Implicating. Recommended Reading. Notes. 5. The Proposition Expressed. 5.1. Assigning Reference. 5.2. Enrichment. 5.3. Explicatures and Coherence. Recommended Reading. Notes. 6. Higher-Level Explicatures: Attitudes and Speech Acts. 6.1. Speech Acts and Pragmatics. 6.2. Performatives. 6.3. Saying, Telling and Asking. 6.4. Interpretive Use. 6.5. Non-Declarative Utterances: Imperatives. 6.6. Non-Declarative Utterances: Interrogatives. Recommended Reading. Notes. Part III: Implicature:. 7. Types of Implicature. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Implicated Premises and Implicated Conclusions. 7.3. Strong and Weak Implicatures. Recommended Reading. Notes. 8. Constraints on Implicatures. 8.1. Connections in Discourse. 8.2. Discourse Connectives as Constraints on Implicatures. 8.3. The Classification of Discourse Connectives. 8.4. Parallel Implications. 8.5. Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics. Recommended Reading. Notes. 9. Implicatures and Style. 9.1. Poetic Effects. 9.2. Metaphor. 9.3. Irony. 9.4. Style. Recommended Reading. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Approaches to Discourse
Book Synopsis* provides guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics. * compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.Trade Review"Deborah Schiffrin has written a rigorous yet accessible description and comparison of various approaches to the analysis of discourse." Pragmatics Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments. Part I: The Scope of Discourse Analysis. 1. Overview. 2. Definitions of Discourse. Part II: Approaches to Discourse Analysis. 3. Speech Act Theory. 4. Interactional Sociolinguists. 5. The Ethnography of Communication. 6. Pragmatics. 7. Conversation Analysis. 8. Variation Analysis. Part III: Conclusion. 9. Structure and Function. 10. Text and Context. 11. Discourse and Communication. 12. Conclusion: Language as Social Interaction. Appendix 1: Collecting Data. Appendix 2: Transcription Conventions. Appendix 3: Sample Data. Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Material Culture Structuralism
Book SynopsisCentral to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present.Table of ContentsList of contributors vi Preface vii Part I Structuralism 1 Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and Beyond 3 Part II Hermeneutics 2 Paul Ricoeur: Action, Meaning and Text 85 3 Clifford Geertz: Towards a More 'Thick' Understanding? 121 Part III Post-Structuralism 4 Roland Barthes: From Sign to Text 163 5 Jacques Derrida: 'There is nothing outside of the text' 206 6 Michel Foucault: Towards an Archaeology of Archaeology 281 Index 348
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Typological Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisGives an account of a field of fast increasing importance in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. The aim of this book is to establish a universally valid framework for the objective description of linguistic function.Trade Review"This is an excellent book. It provides the reader with a good account of recent work on quantitative discourse approaches to language universals and typology, with plenty of exemplification, in a way that shows the reader not only how one can do this kind of work but why it is interesting and revealing to do so. No other book comes even close to this one in its scope." Bernard Comrie, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAnalyzing NP types; tense and aspect; voice alterations; word order variation; other topics of quantitatve research; conclusion.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Mind of a Savant
Book SynopsisSavants are people who are mentally and often physically impaired but who have one dazzling talent. Cases of savants, like Christopher who is described here, are not unheard of, but have never been reported before. Despite being unable to look after himself because he has difficulty with everyday tasks, Christopher can read, write, translate and communicate in fifteen to twenty different languages. In this original, detailed and wide-ranging study, Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli not only provide insight into the mind of one unique individual, but simultaneously cast light on the nature of language and thought in general. By exploiting recent developments in both linguistics and psychology the authors have made an essential contribution to the whole field of cognitive science.Trade Review"This is a very interesting book that any linguist, cognitive scientist or philosopher of mind will love to read." Luca Bonatti, University of Paris VIII at St Denis "Even for those who don't share the authors' nativist inclinations, Smith and Tsimpli's in-depth case study raises some fascinating issues about the relation between cognition and language. Essential reading for all cognitive scientists." Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Medical Research Council "In their fine and careful study of an individual with remarkable linguistic abilities but otherwise limited capabilities, Smith and Tsimpli provide new and important evidence concerning the modularity of mind, invariant principles of language, and their role in first and second language acquisition, the interaction of pragmatic and conceptual factors in language use, and much else. It is a very valuable and illuminating study." Chomsky, MIT "This book, with its focus on understanding the architecture of the mind, makes an important contribution to psycholinguistics and the broader field of cognitive science......Like other great case studies, their attempts to elucidate the architecture of the mind by studying a single, unique individual are noteworthy."Victoria Garlock and Elaina Frieda, University of AlabamaTable of ContentsList of Figures. Foreward. Preface. 1. Language and Intelligence:. Introducing Christopher. Theoretical Background. Hypotheses. 2. The First Language:. Introduction. Syntax. Semantics. Pragmatics. Conclusion. 3. 'Second' Languages:. Introduction. Background Information. The lexicon. Syntax. Conclusion. 4. New Languages: . Rationale. Controlled input: Berber. Learning an Impossible Language: Epun. Conclusions. 5. Language and Mind:. Christopher's Translation. A model of the mind. Theory of mind and meta-representation. Summary and conclusions. Epilogue. Appendices. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Natural Language Semantics
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an introduction to the field of semantics and provides coverage of the main perspectives. The underlying theme is that meanings are cognitively motivated and that expressing them through language is an essential means of cementing human bonding and of displaying it to others.Trade Review"The field of semantics within linguistics needs Allan's book to stand as a marker of the clash of two traditions (the formalist/logical tradition and the pragmatic discourse-based tradition) and as a partially successful attempt to integrate these traditions and to produce a workable synthesis of them. The work is extremely impressive from the point of view of scholarship. Allan is clearly widely read, and has given deep thought to the central problems of the field." James R Hurford, University of Edinburgh. "Allan's book is a wonderful and useful addition to the semantics literature. It covers all topics, from formal to conceptual, to typological, and does so with insight and accessibility. I especially like the problems, which are well thought out and effective teaching tools. Allan is to be praised for taking on the immensely difficult task of writing this book and producing such a good book." William Frawley, University of Delaware. Every computational linguist should own at least one semantics textbook. Allan's book stands apart from many other texts in the way it conveys a real sense of the variety and fecundity of language as spoken by living, breathing human beings." Computational LinguisticsTable of ContentsPreface. Symbols Used. 1. Some Fundamental Concepts for Semantics. 2. Words and Worlds and Reference. 3. The Lexicon and The Encyclopedia. 4. Morphology and Listemes. 5. The Power of Words: Connotation and Jargon. 6. Semantic Relations between Sentences. Predicate Logic, Sets, and Lambda: Tools for Semantic Analysis. 8. Frames, Fields, and Semantic Components. 9. Cognitive Semantics: Backs, Colours, and Classifiers. 10. Using the Typical Denotatum to Identify the Intended Referent. 11. Mood, Tense, Modality, and Thematic Roles. 12. The Semantics of Clause Predicates. 13. Quantifiers in English. Epilogue. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Text and Corpus Analysis
Book SynopsisThis book provides detailed studies in one of the fastest growing areas of linguistics -- corpus analysis -- and shows how computers can be used to reveal culturally significant patterns of language use.Trade Review"The book excels at illustrating how students and scholars might tackle the analysis of cultural, sociological, and political values in text, using techniques of grammatical analysis and computational linguistics." Ed Finegan, University of Southern California "It will have a major impact in encouraging a rethinking of relationships between areas of language study (especially critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics)... I would recommend it on the Grammar, Genre and Social Context course I teach." Norman Fairclough, Lancaster "It is early and opportune, showing what has been accomplished in the past two decades and taking the study of texts a step further."Florian Coulmas, Tokyo "If he can pull it off, it will be rather exciting. I would guess that people in Britain and Europe will be happy to use the book with advanced undergraduates." Peter Trudgill, Lausanne "The book excels at illustrating how students and scholars might tackle the analysis of cultural sociological, and political values in texts." Ed Finegan, University of Southern California "What Stubbs offers is a series of thoughtful studies on different kinds of texts, along with an insightful exploration of liguistic topics such as presupposition, modality, lexical semantics, and what he refers to as Institutional Linguistics.....I found it to be highly stimulating, with analyses that are very thought-provoking and rich enough to engender many further studies of the cultural ecology of texts."Michael Barlow, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures, Concordances and Tables. Acknowledgements. Data Conventions and Terminology. Notes on Corpus Data and Software. Part I: Concepts and History:. 1. Texts and Text Types. 2. British Traditions in Text Analysis: Firth, Halliday and Sinclair. 3. Institutional Linguistics: Firth, Hill and Giddens. Part II: Text and Corpus Analysis:. 4. Baden-Powell: A Comparative Analysis of Two Short Texts. 5. Judging the Facts: An Analysis of One Text in its Institutional Context. 6. Human and Inhuman Geography: A Comparative Analysis of Two Long Texts and a Corpus. 7. Keywords, Collocations and Culture: The Analysis of Word Meanings across Corpora. 8. Towards a Modal Grammar of English: A Matter of Prolonged Fieldwork. 9. The Classic Questions. Notes. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Semantics in Generative Grammar
Book SynopsisOffers an systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the 'Government-Binding' model. This book covers the fundamental constructions with analyses, and also provides discussion of quantification, binding and anaphora, and ellipsis. It is intended for graduate level introductory courses in semantics.Trade Review"The reader gets the immediate impression that they are being invited to contribute to real work, which is inspiring. The style is easy to read and the exposition of many difficult and confusing topics is very clear. Semantics in Generative Grammer is really an advanced introduction, and is a good example of how advanced-level texts should be organized...essential reading" Jennifer Spenader, University of Groningen, The Netherlands "This elegant and thorough text will take the reader through many of the advances in linguistic semantics during the past 25 years of generative grammar. It is a fine achievement by two of the most prominent researchers, and teachers, of the subject." James Higginbotham, University of Oxford "This book shows that natural language semantics has reached its maturity. A careful and enlightening discussion guides the reader through the intricacies of argument structure, quantification, and binding, some of the very central topics in semantics and in the syntax/semantics interface. Traditional techniques from logic are presented in a way aimed at bringing out what is really important to the study of language. An excellent introduction for the linguist-to-be." Gennaro Chierchia, University of Milan "This superb new introduction to formal semantics in linguistic theory helps and invites teh serious beginner to think through arguments among potential alternatives right from the start. It's a great textbook." Barbara Partee, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsPreface ix 1 Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program 1 2 Executing the Fregean Program 13 3 Semantics and Syntax 43 4 More of English: Nonverbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions 61 5 Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding 86 6 Quantifiers: Their Semantic Type 131 7 Quantification and Grammar 178 8 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Quantifier Movement 209 9 Bound and Referential Pronouns and Ellipsis 239 10 Syntactic and Semantic Binding 260 11 E-Type Anaphora 277 12 First Steps Towards an Intensional Semantics 299 Index 313
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Words And Phrases Corpus Studies Of Lexical
Book Synopsis* Provides a detailed account of the place of lexis and phraseology in linguistic theory. * Contains extensive illustrations from corpus data and detailed case studies of words in phrases, words in texts, and words in culture. * Advances the empirical study of language.Trade Review"This invaluable book places words and their phraseology at the centre of an account of language that covers meaning, discourse, culture, and much more. The author successfully demystifies his own discovery processes, providing the reader with tools for further investigation. The book's clarity and depth make it indispensable for students and researchers alike." Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham "Stubbs does a great job of demonstrating the use of corpus techniques for the analysis of lexical semantics. He shows that it is indeed possible to analyse meaning by looking at corpus data, and that the way meaning is constructed through repeated patterns of usage can only be investigated by doing so. His style is very explicit, and his prose is easily readable. I well definitely be using this book in my seminars next term." Oliver Mason, Literary and Linguistic ComputingTable of ContentsFigures, Concordances and Tables xi Acknowledgements xii Data Conventions and Terminology xiv Notes on Corpus Data and Software xvi Part I Introduction 1 1 Words in Use: Introductory Examples 3 1.1 Text and Discourse: Some Distinctions 5 1.2 Language, Action, Knowledge and Situation 6 1.3 Words and Expectations 7 1.4 Language, Logic and Truth 8 1.5 Common-sense Knowledge 9 1.6 Linguistic Conventions 11 1.7 Possible and Actual 13 1.8 Summary and Implications 19 1.9 Background and Further Reading 21 1.10 Topics for Further Study 2 Words, Phrases and Meanings: Basic Concepts 24 2.1 Terminology 24 2.2 Words: Word-forms and Lemmas 25 2.3 Collection 29 2.4 Words and Units of Meaning 30 2.5 Delexicalization 32 2.6 Denotion and Connection 34 2.7 Relational Lexical Semantics 35 2.8 Frequent Lexical Semantics 35 2.9 Two Examples 43 2.10 Summary and Implications 49 2.11 Background and Further Reading 50 2.12 Topics for Further Study Part II Case Studies 55 3 Words in Phrases 1: Concepts, Data and Methods 57 3.1 Background 57 3.2 Communicative Competence 60 3.3 Corpus Methods: Observing Patterns 61 3.4 Terminology 62 3.5 Corpus, Concordance, Data-base 66 3.6 The Cobuild Collections Data-base on CD-ROM 67 3.7 Data for Semantics and Pragmatics 71 3.8 Summary and Implications 72 3.9 Appendix 1: Measures of Statistical Significance 73 3.10 Appendix 2: Further Notes on the Data-Base 75 3.11 Background and Further Reading 77 3.12 Topics for Further Study 78 4 Words in Phrases 2: A Case Study of the Phraseology of English 80 4.1 Frequency of Phraseological Units 80 4.2 Strength of Attraction: word-forms, Lemmas, and Lexical Sets 81 4.3 Lexical Profiles: Comprehensive Coverage of data 84 4.4 A Model of Extended Lexical Units 87 4.5 Summary and Implications 96 4.6 Background and Further Reading 97 4.7 Topics for Further Study 97 5 Words in Texts 1: Words, Phrases and Text Cohesion 100 5.1 Words and Co-text 100 5.2 Routine and Creativity 101 5.3 Variable Phrases and Textual Cohesion 102 5.4 Antonyms and Synonyms 103 5.5 Discourse Prosodies 105 5.6 Lexical Cohesion: Textual Examples 108 5.7 Collocations and Coherence 117 5.8 Summary and Implications 120 5.9 Background and Further reading 121 5.10 Topics for Further Reading 122 6 Words in Texts 2: A Case Study of a Short Story 123 6.1 Public Data and Replicable Experiments 123 6.2 Lexis and Text Structure 124 6.3 Analysis 1: Frequency Statistics 126 6.4 Analysis 2: Frequency Statistics (Keywords) 129 6.5 Analysis 3: Frequency Statistics (Order of Occurrence) 130 6.6 Analysis 4: A Vocabulary – Management Profile 133 6.7 A Further Note on Replication 140 6.8 Limitations on the Analyses 141 6.9 Summary and Implications 142 6.10 Background and Further Reading 144 6.11 Topics for Further Study 144 7 Words in Culture 1: Case Studies of Cultural Keywords 145 7.1 Data and Citation Conventions 146 7.2 Text and Discourse 147 7.3 Case Study 1: ETHNIC, RACIAL, and TRIBAL 147 7.4 Case Study 2: HERITAGE and CARE 149 7.5 Case Study 3: PROPER STANDARDS 154 7.6 Case Study 4: Little Red Riding Hood 161 7.7 Discursive Formations 164 7.8 Summary and Implications 166 7.9 Background and Further Reading 168 7.10 Topics for Further Study 168 8 Words in Culture 2: Case Studies of Loan Words in English 170 8.1 Data 170 8.2 The Etymological Fallacy 171 8.3 Language Change 173 8.4 Terminology 174 8.5 Words, Politics and National Stereotypes 175 8.6 Fields of Knowledge and Text- Types 177 8.7 A Case Study of German Loan Words in English 178 8.8 Frequency in the Vocabulary versus Frequency in Texts 184 8.9 False Friends: Flak, Blitz and Angst 185 8.10 The OED and Cultural Keywords 188 8.11 A Further Note on Vocabulary and Text 190 8.12 Summary and Implications 192 8.13 Background and Further Readings 192 8.14 Topics for Further Study 193 PART III Implications 195 9 Words, Phrases and Connotations: On Lexico-grammer and Evaluative Language 197 9.1 Connotations 197 9.2 Verbs, Discourse Prosodies and Point of View 198 9.3 A Lexico-syntactic Example: MAKE one’s way somewhere 206 9.4 A Note on Syntax 210 9.5 A Cognitive View 210 9.6 A Syntactic Example: BE-passives and GET-passives 211 9.7 Summary and Implications 215 9.8 Background and Further reading 216 9.9 Topics for Further Study 218 10 Data and Dualisms: On Corpus Methods and Pluralists Models 220 10.1 Principles 220 10.2 Problems? 221 10.3 Dualism and Monisms 226 10.4 Pluralist Positions 232 10.5 Brute and Institutional Facts 232 10.6 Physical, Psychological and Social 234 10.7 Worlds 1, 2, and 3 236 10.8 A Pluralist Model 238 10.9 Performance Data, Corpora and Routine Behavior 239 10.10 Summary and Implications 242 10.11 Background and Further Reading 244 10.12 References 245 10.13 Name Index 259 10.14 Subject Index 263
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Wiley The Body
Book SynopsisThe only collection of readings on the philosophy of the body. Challenges the reader to look at the development of a phenomenological theory of the body by such thinkers as Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Designed for use in courses on theory of gender and identity.Trade Review"Finally, those of us who teach courses on continental theories of the body will be able to say goodbye to homemade readers! This beautifully organized and indispensable anthology puts it all together for us: well-chosen selections from the foundational twentieth-century texts and clarifying contemporary commentary. An invaluable contribution for teachers, students, and scholars." Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of KentuckyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Foundations of a Theory of the Body 1 Part I Phenomenological Formulations 9 Edmund Husserl 11 1 Material Things in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body 11 The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body 23 Edmund Husserl 2 Soft, Smooth Hands: Husserl’s Phenomenology of the Lived-Body 38 Donn Welton 3 The Zero-Point of Orientation: The Placement of the I in Perceived Space 57 Elmar Holenstein Martin Heidegger 95 4 Introduction to Being and Time 95 Equipment, Action, and the World 97 Dasein as Affective Responsiveness and as Understanding 103 Seeing and Sight 103 Hearing, Discourse, and the Call of Care 110 Hands 111 On Hearing the Logos 115 Martin Heidegger 5 The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger’s Thinking of Being 122 David Michael Levin Maurice Merleau-Ponty 150 6 Situating the Body 150 The Lived Body 154 The Body in Its Sexual Being 158 The Natural World and the Body 166 Maurice Merleau–Ponty 7 Saturated Intentionality 178 Anthony J. Steinbock 8 Flesh and Blood: A Proposed Supplement to Merleau–Ponty 200 Drew Leder Part II Psycho- and Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses 211 Jacques Lacan 213 9 Towards a Genetic Theory of the Ego 213 The See-saw of Desire 218 The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Body 221 Anamorphosis 223 Jacques Lacan 10 The Status and Significance of the Body in Lacan’s Imaginary and Symbolic Orders 232 Charles W Bonner Michel Foucault: 252 11 Discipline and Punish 252 The History of Sexuality 269 Michel Foucalt 12 The Subjectification of the Body 286 Alphonso Lingis 13 Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions 307 Judith Butler Part III Towards a Semiotics of the Gendered Body 315 Julia Kristeva 317 14 Subject and Body 317 On the Meaning of Drives 325 Julia Kristeva 15 The Flesh Become Word: The Body in Kristeva’s Theory 341 Kelly Oliver Luce Irigaray 353 16 Female Desire 353 Luce Irigaray 17 Beyond Sex and Gender: On Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One 361 Tina Chanter
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Thoughts and Utterances
Book SynopsisThoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech. Trade Review"This book serves to advance the status of pragmatics, as in addition to presenting a theory free from serious errors, it is also a good example of a methodologically sound book. I heavily applaud this volume - which places students on the right path and is also a rare example of scholarly eminence. I believe the author must have had many sleepless nights to finish it - now she can take her rest and enjoy the success and the praise she fully deserves." Linguistics "Challenges current philosophical approaches to pragmatics and makes a substantial contribution to cognitive pragmatic theories such as relevance theory." Moderna Sprak "The book brings together a wealth of empirical observations and new analyses and is impressive in breadth and depth. It is also one of the most detailed and powerful expositions of relevance theory and enriches the framework in considerable ways." Lingua"This long-awaited treatise is the best case ever made for relevance theory, and a most stimulating piece of work on the semantics/pragmatics interface. I enjoyed it enormously." François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod "You don’t have to be a relevance theorist to appreciate Carston’s challenge to influential Gricean views on the interaction of pragmatics with semantics. This book, with its breadth of coverage and depth of analysis, raises a good many questions and offers many good answers." Kent Bach, San Francisco State University "Robyn Carston’s combination of meticulous scholarship with deep insight has led her to cast new light on the vexed distinction between semantics and pragmatics, to provide new analyses of a range of problems in linguistics and the philosophy of language, and to illuminate the relation between language and thought more generally. This elegantly written and original work is the best book on pragmatics for a generation." Neil Smith, University College London "The author directly tackles the by now central issue of the interface between semantics and pragmatics... and addresses such important theoretical problems, within all of pragmatics, as the distinction betwen explicit and implicit communication." Pragmatics "As is usual with excellent books, Carston's book leads us to think further deeply and raises a good many questions... this book takes a resolutely cognitive viewpoint, sheds a new light on the semantics/pragmatics interaction and succeeds in elucidating the roles of language and inferences in communication. i strongly recommend this book not only to pragmatists, of course, but also to everyone who is interested in human communication." Akiko Yoshimura, Nara Women's University, Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Pragmatics and Linguistic Underdeterminacy 15 1.1 Saying and Meaning 15 1.2 The Underdeterminacy Thesis 19 1.2.1 Sources of linguistic underdeterminacy 21 1.2.2 Underdeterminacy: essential or merely convenient? 28 1.3 Eternal Sentences and Effability 30 1.3.1 Eternal sentences and Platonism 31 1.3.2 Effability principles 32 1.3.3 Eternal reference? 37 1.3.4 Eternal predication? 39 1.4 Metarepresentation, Relevance and Pragmatic Inference 42 1.4.1 Mind-reading and ostension 42 1.4.2 Relevance and utterance understanding 44 1.5 Underdeterminacy, Truth Conditions and the Semantics/ Pragmatics Distinction 48 1.5.1 A truth-conditional semantics for natural language? 50 1.5.2 A translational semantics for natural language? 56 1.6 Radical Underdeterminacy and the Background 64 1.6.1 The Background 64 1.6.2 Radical underdeterminacy and ‘expressibility’ 69 1.6.3 Radical underdeterminacy and semantic compositionality 70 1.7 Underdeterminacy of Thought? 74 1.7.1 Mentalese, pragmatics and compositional semantics 74 1.7.2 Mental indexicals and the mind–world connection 78 1.8 Summary 83 Notes 83 2 The Explicit/Implicit Distinction 94 2.1 Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction 95 2.1.1 Truth-conditional semantics and formal pragmatics 95 2.1.2 Semantic/pragmatic circles 96 2.2 Grice: Saying/Implicating 101 2.2.1 Odd statements but true 101 2.2.2 Contextual contributions to ‘what is said’ 105 2.2.3 Implicature: conventional and conversational 107 2.2.4 Saying, meaning and ‘making as if to say’ 114 2.3 Sperber and Wilson: Relevance-theoretic Distinctions 116 2.3.1 Explicature 116 2.3.2 Multiple speech acts and multiple logical forms 125 2.3.3 Implicature 134 2.3.4 Deriving explicatures and implicatures 142 2.3.5 Subsentential utterances, saying and explicating 152 2.3.6 Explicature and non-literalness 157 2.3.7 Blakemore: the conceptual/procedural distinction 160 2.4 Travis and Recanati: Enriched ‘What is Said’ 164 2.4.1 Contextualist saying 164 2.4.2 Availability to intuitions 166 2.5 Bach: What is Said/Impliciture/Implicature 170 2.5.1 Impliciture vs. explicature 170 2.5.2 What is said and linguistic meaning 171 2.5.3 What is said and indexicality 177 2.5.4 What’s to be said about ‘what is said’? 182 2.6 Pragmatic Meaning: Enrichment or Implicature? 183 2.6.1 Minimalist principles 185 2.6.2 Functional independence 189 2.6.3 Embedding tests 191 2.7 Postscript: Hidden Indexicals or ‘Free’ Enrichment? 197 2.8 Conclusion: From Generative Semantics to Pro-active Pragmatics 205 Notes 206 3 The Pragmatics of ‘And’-Conjunction 222 3.1 Preserving the Truth-functionality of ‘And’ 222 3.2 A Relevance-based Pragmatics of Conjunction 226 3.2.1 Cognitive scripts and accessibility 226 3.2.2 Enrichment or implicature? 227 3.3 The Semantic Alternatives 228 3.4 Cognitive Fundamentals: Causality and Explanation 235 3.5 Relevance Relations and Units of Processing 242 3.5.1 The conjunction unit 242 3.5.2 Elaboration relations 246 3.6 Processing Effort and Iconicity 250 3.7 Residual Issues 253 3.7.1 Pragmatic enrichment or unrepresented Background? 253 3.7.2 The semantics of ‘and’ and the logic of ‘and’ 254 3.8 Conclusion: From Generalized Conversational Implicature to Propositional Enrichment 257 Notes 258 4 The Pragmatics of Negation 265 4.1 Some Data and Some Distinctions 266 4.1.1 The scope distinction 266 4.1.2 The representational distinction 267 4.2 Semantic Ambiguity Analyses 271 4.2.1 Lexical ambiguity and/or scope ambiguity? 271 4.2.2 Arguments against ambiguity 273 4.3 Strong Pragmatic Analyses 278 4.3.1 Analyses in the Gricean spirit 278 4.3.2 Grice: structural ambiguity and implicature 281 4.3.3 Sense-generality and implicature 284 4.3.4 Pragmatic narrowing of negation 288 4.4 ‘Presupposition’-cancelling Negation and Metalinguistic Negation 291 4.4.1 Semantic presupposition and negation 291 4.4.2 Metalinguistic negation 294 4.4.3 Negation and echoic use 296 4.4.4 Truth-functional negation and metarepresentational enrichment 298 4.5 The Pragmatics of ‘Presupposition’-denial 302 4.5.1 ‘Presupposition’-denial and contradiction 303 4.5.2 Negation and two kinds of pragmatic enrichment 306 4.6 Conclusion: From Multiple Semantic Ambiguity to Univocal Semantics and Pragmatic Enrichment 311 Notes 312 5 The Pragmatics of On-line Concept Construction 320 5.1 Encoded Concepts and Communicated Concepts 321 5.1.1 Ad hoc concepts via narrowing 323 5.1.2 The problem of concept broadening 328 5.2 A Symmetrical Account of Narrowing and Broadening 334 5.2.1 Consequences of the unified account 337 5.2.2 Arguments for the unified account 343 5.3 Metaphor: Loose Use and Ad Hoc Concepts 349 5.3.1 Where does metaphorical meaning come from? 349 5.3.2 Ad hoc concepts, explicature and indeterminacy 357 5.4 Word Meaning and Concepts 359 5.5 Conclusion: The Long Road from Linguistically Encoded Meaning to the Thought(s) Explicitly Communicated 364 Notes 367 Appendix 1: Relevance Theory Glossary 376 Appendix 2: Gricean Conversational Principles 382 References 384 Index 408
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Formal Semantics
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of papers that have helped shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics. It covers key central themes and includes an editorial introduction and extensive references. This should be a useful resource for students and scholars of semantics and the philosophy of language.Trade Review"This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great papers covering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My own definition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowed by students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume all share the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns my copy of them. It's great to find them all collected here." Fred Landman, Tel Aviv University "Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Frege and analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome the vagueness, ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments of natural language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition provided the very foundation for the serious study of meaning in natural language. This collection of seminal articles bears witness to this astonishing development; it should be essential reading for linguists and philosophers who are seriously interested in linguistic meaning." Manfred Krifka, Humboldt UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction (Paul Portner and Barbara Partee). 1. The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English (Richard Montague). 2. A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural (Greg Carlson). 3. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language (Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper). 4. The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms (Godehard Link). 5. Assertion (Robert C. Stalnaker). 6. Scorekeeping in a Language Game (David Lewis). 7. Adverbs of Quantification (David Lewis). 8. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation (Hans Kamp). 9. File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness (Irene Heim). 10. On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions (Irene Heim). 11. Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English 'Imperfective' Progressive (David R. Dowty). 12. The National Category of Modality (Angelika Kratzer). 13. The Algebra of Events (Emmon Bach). 14. Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity (Barbara Partee and Mats Rooth). 15. Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type Shifting Principles (Barbara H. Partee). 16. Syntax and Semantics of Questions (Lauri Karttunen). 17. Type-Shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives (Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof). 18. On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity Items (William A. Ladusaw). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Meaning
Book SynopsisThis text brings together some of the most significant contemporary philosophical work on linguistic representation and understanding, providing an introduction to core questions in the philosophy of language. Topics discussed include analyticity and translational indeterminacy.Trade Review"This book covers a wide range of core topics in philosophy of language and strikes a nice balance between classic papers and more recent work. The collection will form the basis for an excellent course on philosophy of language." --Stephen Laurence, University of Sheffield "Meaning takes the reader through many of the most crucial developments in the study of meaning from Frege through to the present day; this book will certainly prove an invaluable resource for both students and professionals." --Emma Borg, University of Reading "This is an excellent collection on meaning, blending classics with insightful recent contributions." --Michael Devitt, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Conceptions of Meaning (Mark Richard). 1. 'On Sense and Reference' (Gottlob Frege). 2. From Naming and Necessity (Saul Kripke). 3. 'Meaning and Reference' (Hilary Putnam). 4. 'Predicate Meets Property' (Mark Wilson). 5. From Meaning (Paul Horwich). 6. From 'Ontological Relativity' (W. V. O. Quine). 7. From 'The Indeterminancy of Translation and the Inscrutability of Reference' (Scott Soames). 8. 'Individuation, Causal Relations, and Quine' (Jody Azzouni). 9. 'Radical Interpretation' (Donald Davidson). 10. 'Semantics and Semantic Competence' (Scott Soames). 11. 'Truth and Understanding' (James Higginbotham). 12. From 'Indexicals and Demonstratives' (John Perry). 13. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (W.V.O. Quine). 14. Armchair Metaphysics. Mind, Method, & Conditionals (Frank Jackson). Index.
£99.86
Harvard University Press World Philology
Book SynopsisPhilology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding.Trade ReviewWorld Philology demonstrates that the practice of philology is a worldwide phenomenon, found in literate cultures at many times and in many places, and sets the stage for a global comparative history of learned textual practices. The editors have assembled a broad range of eminent experts. -- Christopher Minkowski, University of OxfordThis is a splendid book, conceived with courage and intelligence, and executed with grace and obstinacy. There is nothing at all like it, and people will not only use it constantly but will also wonder how they could have managed to get along earlier without ever having had anything like it. -- Glenn W. Most, University of Chicago
£39.91
Harvard University Press Making It Explicit
Book SynopsisWhere accounts of the relation between language and mind often rest on the concept of representation, Brandom sets out an approach based on inference, and on a conception of certain kinds of implicit assessment that become explicit in language. It is the first attempt to work out a detailed theory rendering linguistic meaning in terms of use.Trade ReviewMaking It Explicit has already developed a justified reputation as a major contribution to the philosophy of language. It takes the traditional ill-fitting story of the relationship between language and the world and turns it upside down. Instead of starting with the existence of the world and explaining what it is for language to represent the world, it starts with language and explains what it is for the world to be represented by language...With tremendous panache, he launches into accounts of normativity, inference, meaning, truth, reference and objectivity, trying to show that the later concepts in that list are made intelligible by the earlier. -- Rowland Stout * Times Literary Supplement *Making It Explicit is a landmark in theoretical philosophy comparable to that constituted in the early seventies by A Theory of Justice in practical philosophy...Drawing upon the resources furnished by his intricate theory of language, Brandom succeeds in offering a thoroughly convincing description of the practices within which beings capable of language and action express their rationality and autonomy. -- Jürgen Habermas * Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung *Robert Brandom's magnificent book is an attempt to rework the whole of the philosophy of language in terms of normative, socially articulated pragmatics. His approach, inferentialism, which he traces through Kant and Frege to Wittgenstein and Sellars, is opposed to a more standard approach, representationalism...Making It Explicit is written with an exhilarating argumentative relish and tremendous assurance and thoroughness. -- Rowland Stout * Mind *Wilfrid Sellars described his project as an attempt to usher analytic philosophy out of its Humean and into its Kantian stage...Brandom's work can usefully be seen as an attempt to usher philosophy from its Kantian to its Hegelian stage...This sort of free and easy transition between philosophy of language and mind on the one hand, and world-historical vision on the other, is reminiscent not only of Mead and Dewey but also of Gadamer and Habermas. -- Richard Rorty, Introduction to Sellars' Empiricism and the Philosophy of MindAn extraordinary philosophical book. Brandom has produced a work of great power, scope, and originality. He gives a plausible and powerful reading to the claim that "meaning is normative," or that the concept of meaning is a normative concept, and elucidates it at length. It turns out, in his hands, to be a claim of great philosophical fertility and power. -- Allan Gibbard, University of MichiganRobert Brandom's Making it Explicit is an unusual book on the Anglo-American scene...What Brandom achieves is a convincing elaboration of the view of intentionality as a linguistic, normative and social-pragmatic affair...Brandom's book is the first detailed elaboration of the position that it is normative attitudes which distinguishes us, insofar as we are thinking and acting beings, from the physical. It will hopefully contribute to giving that position the attention it deserves in contemporary philosophy of mind. -- Michael Epsfield * Erkenntnis *Table of ContentsPreface PART ONE Toward a Normative Pragmatics Introduction From Intentional State to Normative Status From Norms Explicit in Rules to Norms Implicit in Practices From Normative Status to Normative Attitude From Assessment to the Social Institution of Norms From Intentional Interpretation to Original Intentionality Appendix: Wittgenstein's Use of Regel Toward an Inferential Semantics Content and Representation The Priority of the Propositional Conceptual Classification and Inference Material Inference, Conceptual Content, and Expression Circumstances and Consequences of Application Conclusion Linguistic Practice and Discursive Commitment Intentional States and Linguistic Practices Deontic Status and Deontic Attitudes Asserting and Inferring Scorekeeping: Pragmatic Significance and Semantic Content Perception and Action: The Conferral of Empirical and Practical Conceptual Content Assertions as Knowledge Claims Reliability Observation Reports and Noninferential Authority Rational Agency Practical Reasoning: Inferences from Doxastic to Practical Commitments Intentions PART TWO The Expressive Role of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary: 'True' and 'Refers' From Inference to Truth, Reference, and Representation Truth in Classical Pragmatism From Pragmatism to Prosentences Reference and Anaphorically Indirect Descriptions The Function of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary Is Expressive, Not Explanatory Substitution: What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? Multivalued Logic and Material Inference Substitution, Sentential Embedding, and Semantic Roles Subsentential Expressions What Are Singular Terms? Why Are There Singular Terms? Objections and Replies Conclusion Appendix: From Substitutional Derivation of Categories to Functional Derivation of Categories Appendix: Sentence Use Conferring the Status of Singular Terms on Subsentential Expressions--An Application Anaphora: The Structure of Token Repeatables Frege's Grundlagen Account of Picking Out Objects Definite Descriptions and Existential Commitments Substitution, Token Recurrence, and Anaphora Deixis and Anaphora Interpersonal Anaphora and Communication Appendix: Other Kinds of Anaphora--Paychecks, Donkeys, and Quantificational Antecedents Ascribing Propositional Attitudes: The Social Route from Reasoning to Representing Representation and De Re Ascription of Propositionally Contentful Commitments Interpretation, Communication, and De Re Ascriptions De Re Ascriptions and the Intentional Explanation of Action From Implicit Attribution to Explicit Ascription Epistemically Strong De Re Attitudes: Indexicals, Quasi-Indexicals, and Proper Names The Social-Perspectival Character of Conceptual Contents and the Objectivity of Conceptual Norms Appendix: The Construction and Recursive Interpretation of Iterated Ascriptions That Mix De Dicto and De Re Content Specifications Conclusion Two Concepts of Concepts Norms and Practices We Have Met the Norms, and They Are Ours Abbreviations Notes Index
£36.86
Harvard University Press Critical Essays Volume II
Book SynopsisDionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. They constitute an important development from the somewhat mechanical techniques of rhetorical handbooks to more sensitive criticism of individual authors.
£23.70
Harvard University Press The Orators Education Volume III Books 68
Book SynopsisQuintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, he draws on his own rich experience. It provides not only insights on oratory, but also a picture of Roman education and social attitudes.
£23.70
Harvard University Press The Orators Education Volume IV Books 910
Book SynopsisQuintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, he draws on his own rich experience. It provides not only insights on oratory, but also a picture of Roman education and social attitudes.
£23.70
Harvard University Press Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and
Book SynopsisPhilostratus “the Elder” or “the Athenian” (2nd to mid-3rd c.) and Eunapius (ca. 345–415) provide fascinating intellectual and professional biographies of notable sophists that reveal their predominant influence in the educational, social, religious, and political life of the Empire in their times.
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Princeton University Press Philosophy of Language
Book SynopsisPresents the author's vision of philosophy of language. Explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, this book investigates foundational concepts - such as truth, reference, and meaning - that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole.Trade Review"[Philosophy of Language] covers an impressive number of controversies in philosophy of language. And it does that in a nontechnical way that is likely to prove attractive to many instructors in the field."--Choice "[T]his is, in my view, a very valuable (though not at all introductory) overview, from a particular perspective, to be sure, of the trajectory on the philosophy of language from Frege to the present... [I]t covers a remarkable amount of ground in a short space, both presenting and contributing to an important network of themes that have shaped the philosophical study of language in the analytic tradition."--Kirk Ludwig, PhilosophiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART ONE: A Century of Work in the Philosophy of Language Chapter One: The Logical Study of Language 7 1.1 Gottlob Frege--Origins of the Modern Enterprise 7 1.11 Foundations of Philosophical Semantics 7 1.12 Frege's Distinction between Sense and Reference 8 1.13 The Compositionality of Sense and Reference 10 1.14 Frege's Hierarchy of Indirect Senses and Referents 13 1.15 The Semantic Importance of Frege's Platonist Epistemology 15 1.16 Potential Problems and Alternative Analyses 16 1.17 The Fregean Legacy 20 1.2 Bertrand Russell: Fundamental Themes 20 1.21 Quantification, Propositions, and Propositional Functions 20 1.22 Generalized Quantifiers 23 1.23 Denoting Phrases, Definite Descriptions, and Logical Form 24 1.24 Russell's Theory of Scope 26 1.25 Thought, Meaning, Acquaintance, and Logically Proper Names 28 1.26 Existence and Negative Existentials 30 Selected Further Reading 32 Chapter Two: Truth, Interpretation, and Meaning 33 2.1 The Importance of Tarski 33 2.11 Truth, Models, and Logical Consequence 33 2.12 The Significance of Tarski for the Philosophy of Language 38 2.2 Rudolf Carnap's Embrace of Truth-Theoretic Semantics 41 2.3 The Semantic Approach of Donald Davidson 45 Selected Further Reading 49 Chapter Three: Meaning, Modality, and Possible Worlds Semantics 50 3.1 Kripke-Style Possible Worlds Semantics 50 3.2 Robert Stalnaker and David Lewis on Counterfactuals 56 3.3 The Montagovian Vision 63 Selected Further Reading 75 Chapter Four: Rigid Designation, Direct Reference, and Indexicality 77 4.1 Background 77 4.2 Kripke on Names, Natural Kind Terms, and Necessity 78 4.21 Rigid Designation, Essentialism, and Nonlinguistic Necessity 78 4.22 The Nondescriptive Semantics of Names 80 4.23 Natural Kind Terms 88 4.24 Kripke's Essentialist Route to the Necessary Aposteriori 91 4.3 Kaplan on Direct Reference and Indexicality 93 4.31 Significance: The Tension between Logic and Semantics 93 4.32 The Basic Structure of the Logic of Demonstratives 94 4.33 Direct Reference and Rigid Designation 97 4.34 'Dthat' and 'Actually' 99 4.35 English Demonstratives vs.'Dthat'-Rigidified Descriptions 100 4.36 Final Assessment 104 Selected Further Reading 105 PART TWO : New Directions Chapter Five: The Metaphysics of Meaning: Propositions and Possible Worlds 109 5.1 Loci of Controversy 109 5.2 Propositions 111 5.21 Why We Need Them and Why Theories of Truth Conditions Can't Provide Them 111 5.22 Why Traditional Propositions Won't Do 113 5.23 Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Propositions 116 5.231 The Deflationary Approach 117 5.232 The Cognitive-Realist Approach 121 5.3 Possible World-States 123 5.31 How to Understand Possible World-States 123 5.32 The Relationship between Modal and Nonmodal Truths 126 5.33 Our Knowledge of World-States 126 5.34 Existent and Nonexistent World-States 128 5.35 The Function of World-States in Our Theories 129 Selected Further Reading 130 Chapter Six: Apriority, Aposteriority, and Actuality 131 6.1 Language, Philosophy, and the Modalities 131 6.2 Apriority and Actuality 132 6.21 Apriori Knowledge of the Truth of Aposteriori Propositions at the Actual World-State 132 6.22 The Contingent Apriori and the Apriori Equivalence of P and the Proposition That P Is True at @ 134 6.23 Why Apriority Isn't Closed under Apriori Consequence: Two Ways of Knowing @ 135 6.24 Apriori Truths That Are Known Only Aposteriori 136 6.25 Apriority and Epistemic Possibility 137 6.26 Are Singular Thoughts Instances of the Contingent Apriori? 140 6.3 'Actually' 142 Selected Further Reading 143 Chapter Seven: The Limits of Meaning 145 7.1 The Traditional Conception of Meaning, Thought, Assertion, and Implicature 145 7.2 Challenges to the Traditional Conception 147 7.21 Demonstratives: A Revision of Kaplan 147 7.22 Incomplete Descriptions, Quantifiers, and Context 151 7.23 Pragmatic Enrichment and Incomplete Semantic Contents 155 7.231 Implicature, Impliciture, and Assertion 155 7.232 Pervasive Incompleteness? Possessives, Compound Nominals, and Temporal Modification 158 7.3 A New Conception of the Relationship between Meaning, Thought, Assertion, and Implicature 163 7.31 The Guiding Principle 163 7.32 Demonstratives and Incomplete Descriptions Revisited 164 7.33 Names and Propositional Attitudes 168 7.4 What Is Meaning? The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics 171 Selected Further Reading 173 References 175 Index 187
£35.70
Princeton University Press Aboutness
Book SynopsisAboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to oTrade Review"This is an important and far-reaching book that philosophers will be discussing for a long time. There are doctoral dissertations, articles, and books to write exploring the possibilities and limitations of [Yablo's] approach."--Adam Morton, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface vii How to Read This Book xi Introduction 1 1 I Wasn't Talking about That 7 2 Varieties of Aboutness 23 3 Inclusion in Metaphysics and Semantics 45 4 A Semantic Conception of Truthmaking 54 5 The Truth and Something But the Truth 77 6 Confirmation and Verisimilitude 95 7 Knowing That and Knowing About 112 8 Extrapolation and Its Limits 131 9 Going On in the Same Way 142 10 Pretense and Presupposition 165 11 The Missing Premise 178 12 What Is Said 189 Appendix. Nomenclature 207 Bibliography 209 Index 219
£46.75
Princeton University Press What Is Meaning
Book SynopsisThe tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of tTrade Review"This is an outstanding book, probably the best philosophy book I have read this year... The book will not only be of great importance to professional philosophers and linguists but it will also be an accessible and invaluable asset to students."--Anthony Everett, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Derived from three lectures at Soochow University, Taipei, this book retains the relatively informal style that must have made those lectures both enjoyable and highly informative."--Choice "Soames's excellent book will drive research on this important topic for some time to come."--Brian Ball, Canadian Journal of Philosophy "Scott Soames' new book, What Is Meaning?, is an important book, both in the issues it raises and in its shortcomings. It is the first serious discussion of meaning (not 'semantic content' or some other term designed to sidestep the real issue) by a leading analytic philosopher of language in a long while, and its findings lead to a more realistic understanding of meaning and language."--Sergeiy Sandler, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Meanings 1 Chapter 2: Frege and Russell: The Real Problem of "the Unity of the Proposition" 11 Chapter 3: Why Truth Conditions Are Not Enough 33 Chapter 4: Propositions and Attitudes: Davidson's Challenge and Russell's Neglected Insight 49 Chapter 5: Toward a Theory of Propositions: A Deflationary Account 69 Chapter 6: The Cognitive-Realist Theory of Propositions 99 Chapter 7: Expanding the Cognitive-Realist Model 109 Index 131
£19.80
Princeton University Press Security Politics Humanity and the Philology of
Book SynopsisFrom national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatiliTrade ReviewNamed a Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2014 "[This] is a wonderfully rich volume that makes punctual yet decisive incursions leading to brilliant new readings of canonical texts... Through the cornucopia of its corpus and the generosity of its gesture, Security is above all an invitation to think along, to think further and deeper, to pursue the project of the book on a yet wider corpus. It invites us to practice the philology of care in our approach to books but also to the world."--Hall Bjornstad, L'Esprit Createur "[A] masterful meditation."--Ellwood Wiggins, Modern Language QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One: Preliminary Concerns 1 1. Homo Curans 3 2. Security Studies and Philology 7 3. Handle with Care 25 Part Two: Etymologies and Figures 49 4. A Brief Semantic History of Securitas 51 5. The Pasture and the Garden 68 6. Security on the Beach 83 7. Tranquillity, Anger, and Caution 114 Part Three: Occupying Security 135 8. Fortitude and Maternal Care 137 9. Embarkations 168 10. Lingua Homini Lupus 182 11. Repercussions 201 12. Revolution's Chances 224 13. Vital Instabilities 238 14. The Sorrow of Thinking 262 15. Surveillance, Conspiracy, and the Nanny State 284 On the Main 299 Works Cited 301 Index 317
£38.25
Princeton University Press Security
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNamed a Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2014 "[This] is a wonderfully rich volume that makes punctual yet decisive incursions leading to brilliant new readings of canonical texts... Through the cornucopia of its corpus and the generosity of its gesture, Security is above all an invitation to think along, to think further and deeper, to pursue the project of the book on a yet wider corpus. It invites us to practice the philology of care in our approach to books but also to the world."--Hall Bjornstad, L'Esprit Createur "[A] masterful meditation."--Ellwood Wiggins, Modern Language QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One: Preliminary Concerns 1 1. Homo Curans 3 2. Security Studies and Philology 7 3. Handle with Care 25 Part Two: Etymologies and Figures 49 4. A Brief Semantic History of Securitas 51 5. The Pasture and the Garden 68 6. Security on the Beach 83 7. Tranquillity, Anger, and Caution 114 Part Three: Occupying Security 135 8. Fortitude and Maternal Care 137 9. Embarkations 168 10. Lingua Homini Lupus 182 11. Repercussions 201 12. Revolution's Chances 224 13. Vital Instabilities 238 14. The Sorrow of Thinking 262 15. Surveillance, Conspiracy, and the Nanny State 284 On the Main 299 Works Cited 301 Index 317
£21.25
Princeton University Press Aboutness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important and far-reaching book that philosophers will be discussing for a long time. There are doctoral dissertations, articles, and books to write exploring the possibilities and limitations of [Yablo's] approach."--Adam Morton, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface vii How to Read This Book xi Introduction 1 1 I Wasn't Talking about That 7 2 Varieties of Aboutness 23 3 Inclusion in Metaphysics and Semantics 45 4 A Semantic Conception of Truthmaking 54 5 The Truth and Something But the Truth 77 6 Confirmation and Verisimilitude 95 7 Knowing That and Knowing About 112 8 Extrapolation and Its Limits 131 9 Going On in the Same Way 142 10 Pretense and Presupposition 165 11 The Missing Premise 178 12 What Is Said 189 Appendix. Nomenclature 207 Bibliography 209 Index 219
£25.20
Princeton University Press Figural Language in the Novel
Book SynopsisNovels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths of human existence are created and preserved. Professor Saldivar shows that deconstructive readings of novels remind us that we do not apprehend the world directly but through interpretive codes. Originally published in 1984. The PrinTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xi*Chapter One. Rhetoric and the Figures of Form: Peirce, Nietzsche, and the Novel, pg. 1*Chapter Two. In Quest of Authority: Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Grammar of Proper Language, pg. 25*Chapter Three. The Rhetoric of Desire: Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, pg. 72*Chapter Four. The Apotheosis of Subjectivity: Performative and Constative in Melville's Moby-Dick, pg. 110*Chapter Five. Reading the Letter of the Law: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, pg. 156*Chapter Six. The Flowers of Speech: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, pg. 182*Afterword, pg. 249*Index, pg. 259
£35.70
Princeton University Press Christian Discourses etc
Book SynopsisThe edition includes "Christian Discourses," "The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air" and "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of PrincetonTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. v*CONTENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION: ABOUT THE YEAR 1848, pg. xi*CHRISTIAN DISCOURSES, pg. 1*THE LILIES OF THE FIELD AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, pg. 311*THREE DISCOURSES AT THE COMMUNION ON FRIDAYS, pg. 357*INDEX, pg. 387
£49.30
Princeton University Press The Art of Persuasion in Greece 2612 Princeton
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Abbreviations, pg. ix*Chapter One. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric, pg. 1*Chapter Two. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C., pg. 26*Chapter Three. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corax to Aristotle, pg. 52*Chapter Four. The Attic Orators, pg. 125*Chapter Five. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, pg. 264*Appendix. The Introduction to "On the ancient orators" by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, pg. 337*Index, pg. 341
£110.40
University Press of Kansas The Presidents Words
Book SynopsisExamines presidential speeches over the course of six administrations. Editors Michael Nelson and Russell Riley have brought together an outstanding team of academics and professional writers—including nine former speechwriters who worked for every president from Nixon to Clinton—to examine how the politics and crafting of presidential rhetoric serve the various roles of the presidency.Trade ReviewAn important addition to the library of any researcher interested in the implications of democracy and oratory in the modern American presidency." —Rhetoric & Public Affairs"A solid addition to the literature on presidential speechwriting for scholars seeking to understand how the sausage is made." —Congress & the Presidency"Nelson and Riley's collection gives the reader an excellent critical analysis along with a behind-the-scenes look at those who craft the president's message as well as important insight into why modern presidents were successful or unsuccessful at communicating their message. . . . Students of history, public address, or politics will profit from this book as much as writers and scholars. Aspiring speechwriters will learn important lessons from those who have gone before them." —Presidential Studies Quarterly"The cascade of words that characterizes the modern rhetorical presidency is a product not of one loquacious man but of a host of hired wordsmiths. Yet few of us know anything about presidential speechwriters; their frustrations, challenges, pressures, rewards, and opportunities. Combining acute analysis with a vivid insider's perspective, The President's Words provides a revealing look at their world." —Richard J. Ellis, editor of Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective"Offers insights into the relationships between presidents and their public discourse and clues about why some presidents use the bully pulpit more skillfully." —Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, coauthor of Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance
£36.08
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Rhetoric of Donald Trump Nationalist
Book SynopsisAnalyses the nationalist and populist themes that dominate the rhetoric of President Trump and links those themes to a persona that has evolved from celebrity outsider to presidential strongman. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how Trump's rhetoric undermines basic principles at the heart of American democracy.Trade ReviewThe author provides a refreshingly clear-eyed, deeply-informed, and rigorously argued examination of the phenomenon that is Donald Trump. Rowland is especially helpful in exploring the relationship between the particulars of Trump's language practices and their more general implications for populism, democracy, and the American presidency. This is a work of singular achievement." - Stephen Howard Browne, professor of communication arts and sciences, Pennsylvania State University, and author of The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic"Of some eighty studies of Trump's rhetoric that have appeared between 2015 and 2020, Robert Rowland's book The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy is the best. Rowland develops a theoretical framework that explains Trump's rhetoric and why it is effective. In so doing, he extends rhetorical theories of both affect and genre. As he notes, treating Trump's rhetoric as an expression of an affective genre is not only important for explaining Trump's success but also for illuminating the rise of nationalist populism in Europe and for suggesting important ways of extending genre criticism beyond a narrow situational approach. That Rowland is one of the leading theorists of genre studies gives his theoretical argument added power." - David A. Frank, professor of rhetoric, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon"The Rhetoric of Donald Trump takes the reader on an in-depth analysis of Trump's communication-from his campaign oratory to his presidential speeches and from his tweets to his COVID-19 briefings. Throughout this excellent book, Robert C. Rowland incisively demonstrates how Trump's unforgiving nationalism, populist attacks on elites, and violation of rhetorical norms, in tandem with the persona of a celebrity outsider that has evolved into that of an authoritarian leader, have forged a bond of identity with his followers that persists. Rowland also points to the grave dangers that Trump's rhetoric pose to American democracy." - Denise M. Bostdorff, author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis and Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms"In this important and carefully researched volume, Professor Robert C. Rowland examines and critiques Donald Trump's strategic exploitation of some of the darkest and most divisive elements of American populist and anti-immigrant sentiments. Rowland provides a strong warning of the dangers posed to the vitality of our democracy and our most important institutions by this rhetoric. Trump and Trumpism have sadly captured the hearts and minds of the Republican Party and its most devoted followers, and this book explains why this style of discourse may persist for years to come." - Thomas A. Hollihan, professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, and author of Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age
£37.76
University of Wales Press Rhetoric of the Anchorhold
Book SynopsisExamines from a variety of perspectives, and offers a range of interpretations, of the type of rhetoric associated with the anchoritic experience during the Middle Ages and draws conclusions on the many purposes of that rhetoric.
£63.75
Penguin Random House LLC How To Say It Best Choice Words Phrases Model Speeches for Every Occasion
£18.40
Lexington Books Language and Linguisticality in Gadamers
Book SynopsisIn this book, internationally recognized scholars in philosophical hermeneutics discuss various aspects of language and linguisticality. The translations of Hans-Georg Gadamer''s two recent essays provoke a preliminary discussion on the philosopher''s polemic claim in Truth and MethodBeing that can be understood is language. Topics addressed by the contributors include the relationship of rituals to tradition and the immemorial; the unity of the word; conversation; translation and conceptuality; and the interrelationship between the art of writing and linguisticality. This work is of critical importance to anyone interested in Gadamer''s claims regarding the boundaries of language, the transition from the prelinguistic to linguistic realms, and the role of rituals in this transition.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Language in a Hermeneutic Ontology Chapter 2 Boundaries of Language (1985) Chapter 3 Towards a Phenomenology of Ritual and Language (1992) Chapter 4 Play, Festival, and Ritual in Gadamer: On the Theme of the Immemorial in his Later Works Chapter 5 On the Hermeneutic Understanding of Language: Word, Conversation and Subject Matter Chapter 6 The Hermeneutics of Translation Chapter 7 The Other Side of Writing: Thoughts on Gadamer's Notion of Schriftlichkeit Chapter 8 Plato's Khôra as a Linguistic Index of Groundlessness Chapter 9 Participation and Ritual: Dewey and Gadamer on Language Chapter 10 A Written History of Effects: From Concept to Application Chapter 11 The Enigma of Health: Gadamer at Century's End Chapter 12 Notes Chapter 13 About the Contributors
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Rlpg/Galleys Literary Semiotics
Book SynopsisLiterary Semiotics brings much needed revitalization to the conservatism of modern semiotic theory. Scott Simpkins'' revisionist work scrutinizes the conflicting views on sign theory to identify new areas of development in semiotic thought and practice, particularly in relation to literary theory. Focusing on the idea of semiotics as a conversation about sign theory and practice, Simpkins principally looks at the work of Umberto Eco, while giving secondary attention to some of semiotics'' most influential commentators: including Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Foucault, Barthes, Kristeva, and Derrida. As an engaged interrogation of the restraints on the practice of semiotics, Literary Semiotics is a provocative study for semioticians, literary theorists, and scholars of cultural studies and a resource for students seeking a probing examination of the theory of signs.Trade ReviewSimpkins' book is a triumphant exposition and vindication of Peircean semiotics. * The Semiotic Review Of Books *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Shaking Up Semiotics Chapter 2 The Lingua Franca of Semioticians Chapter 3 Semiotics Under Fire Chapter 4 The Implications of Codes Chapter 5 The "Problem" of Controlling the Decoder Chapter 6 The Limits of "System" and the Authority of the Encoder Chapter 7 Finite Infinite Semiotics Chapter 8 Semiotics Based on Radical Polysemy, Structuration, and Play Chapter 9 Semiosis in The Catbird Seat Chapter 10 Appendix - The Catbird Seat by James Thurber
£103.50
Lexington Books Articulating Lifes Memory
Book SynopsisArticulating Life''s Memory offers a unique view of the history of abortion in early America. Nathan Stormer''s work moves beyond general histories of medicine, science, and women; it provides specific insight into how the earliest medical writings on abortion served to create cultural memory. Nineteenth-century medical texts presented the act of abortion as a threat to the carefully circumscribed concepts of nation and race. Stormer analyzes a wealth of literature (and illustrations) from the period to explore the rhetorical techniques that led early Americans to presume that abortion put the integrity of all of American culture at risk. The book''s first part provides a layered context for understanding medical practices within the rhetoric of memory formation and sets early antiabortion efforts within the wider framework of nineteenth-century biopolitics and racism. In Part II of the study, Stormer examines the substance of the memory constituted by these early medical practices. MaTrade ReviewArticulating Life's Memory is a timely and provocative book that restores a now-forgotten history to contemporary rhetoric and debates about abortion. Not only does this book give us new insight into the historical development of antiabortion rhetoric, it also illustrates how physicians and medical practices contributed to an understanding of abortion as a central threat to the national, racial, and sexual 'integrity' of the United States. -- Carol Stabile, University of PittsburghThis book contains a number of fascinating themes, particularly with respect to the evolving relationship of male physicians to their female patients, as they read the body using new instruments and techniques. * Journal of American History *This book is a fascinating read and makes a major contribution to the history of the abortion debate and to application of rhetorical theory. * Rhetoric & Public Affairs *This book does an admirable job of synthesizing significant works written on the wider topics of gender, women's bodies, and women's health. -- Deborah Kuhn McGregor, University of Illinois, SpringfieldThe book is rich with historical evidence, complex arguments, and critical insights. * Women & Language *This book is a very important contribution to the ongoing work in the cultural dynamics performed by biomedical discourses of the nineteenth century. It is also an important case study into the value of post-humanist rhetorical methodologies for generating new knowledges about the constraints placed on traditional forms of public argumentation. -- Ron Greene, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsPart 1 Memory in Early Medical Abortion Opposition Chapter 2 Medical Practice, Memory, and Antiabortion Rhetoric Chapter 3 The Politics of Life and Memory Chapter 4 Somatic Confessions Part 5 Articulating a Memory of Life Chapter 6 Organic Discourse Chapter 7 Embodying a Matrix Chapter 8 Prenatal Space Part 9 Conclusion: In Living Memory
£85.50
Rlpg/Galleys Articulating Lifes Memory
Book SynopsisArticulating Life''s Memory offers a unique view of the history of abortion in early America. Nathan Stormer''s work moves beyond general histories of medicine, science, and women; it provides specific insight into how the earliest medical writings on abortion served to create cultural memory. Nineteenth-century medical texts presented the act of abortion as a threat to the carefully circumscribed concepts of nation and race. Stormer analyzes a wealth of literature (and illustrations) from the period to explore the rhetorical techniques that led early Americans to presume that abortion put the integrity of all of American culture at risk. The book''s first part provides a layered context for understanding medical practices within the rhetoric of memory formation and sets early antiabortion efforts within the wider framework of nineteenth-century biopolitics and racism. In Part II of the study, Stormer examines the substance of the memory constituted by these early medical practices. MaTrade ReviewArticulating Life's Memory is a timely and provocative book that restores a now-forgotten history to contemporary rhetoric and debates about abortion. Not only does this book give us new insight into the historical development of antiabortion rhetoric, it also illustrates how physicians and medical practices contributed to an understanding of abortion as a central threat to the national, racial, and sexual 'integrity' of the United States. -- Carol Stabile, University of PittsburghThis book contains a number of fascinating themes, particularly with respect to the evolving relationship of male physicians to their female patients, as they read the body using new instruments and techniques. * Journal of American History *This book is a fascinating read and makes a major contribution to the history of the abortion debate and to application of rhetorical theory. * Rhetoric & Public Affairs *This book does an admirable job of synthesizing significant works written on the wider topics of gender, women's bodies, and women's health. -- Deborah Kuhn McGregor, University of Illinois, SpringfieldThe book is rich with historical evidence, complex arguments, and critical insights. * Women & Language *This book is a very important contribution to the ongoing work in the cultural dynamics performed by biomedical discourses of the nineteenth century. It is also an important case study into the value of post-humanist rhetorical methodologies for generating new knowledges about the constraints placed on traditional forms of public argumentation. -- Ron Greene, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsPart 1 Memory in Early Medical Abortion Opposition Chapter 2 Medical Practice, Memory, and Antiabortion Rhetoric Chapter 3 The Politics of Life and Memory Chapter 4 Somatic Confessions Part 5 Articulating a Memory of Life Chapter 6 Organic Discourse Chapter 7 Embodying a Matrix Chapter 8 Prenatal Space Part 9 Conclusion: In Living Memory
£34.20
Lexington Books Democracies to Come
Book SynopsisDemocracies to Come draws upon a variety of contemporary sites and moments (e.g. IMF/World Bank protests, writing emerging from social movements in struggle against neoliberalism, classroom praxis, postcolonial literature, student activism) to explore new relationshipspedagogical, emotional, affective, and socialthat can be the basis of political and social organizing. Approaching pedagogy as a space of learning, Democracies to Come argues that pedagogy becomes a cultural force for democracy in its own right, a cultural literacy, which intervenes in a multiplicity of systems, institutions, cultural formations, and constituencies. Each chapter of the book answers these questions: How can pedagogy be conceptualized as a site in which to intervene in culture and to act politically? How can pedagogy help cultivate the kairotic act of opening spaces for inquiring into the social relations that education helps shape? How can we re-imagine practices capable of contextualizing education withiTrade ReviewDemocracies to Come may prove particularly useful for community engaged educators, activists, and composition scholars as it leaves us with lists of questions that lead to reflective praxis. . . .Whether we work with non-profits or individual community members, in correctional facilities or with activist organizations, Democracies to Come provides ways to understand our everyday work with language as action that has the potential to rupture geo-political and shift geopolitical systems. It provides a path toward critically engaging across the individual and systemic, as well as the local and global, a challenging move because of the neoliberal frameworks which conscribe our work and relationships, but a necessary move if we wish to work toward 'the out to be.' * Reflections *Perhaps the most important thing that Democracies to Come accomplishes is to remind rhetors, teachers, and activists to search for the cracks in neoliberal hegemony and transform them into moments of rhetorical action. If the context of the current economic crisis makes this work more urgent, then the narrative hope and change that has also wept the recent national media makes Riedner and Mahoney's project viable as an invitation to kairotic practice in the face of despair. * Rhetoric Review *Drawing on example from Zapatistas in Chiapas to demonstrations against the WTO,Democracies to Come takes on the problem of neoliberalism in the university and wider world to explore the possibilities of consequential rhetorical action in the era of late capitalism. To my mind, Rachel Riedner and Kevin Mahoney raise key theoretical and pedagogical issues, challenging readers with their adept analyses of benevolence and despair in student consciousness and with the sense of solidarity and struggle that comes from their anti-imperialist politics. This is the first book I know of in rhetoric and writing studies to capture the radical energies of the anti-globalization movement and its belief that another world is possible. -- John Trimbur, professor and director of the First Year Writing Program, Emerson CollegeDemocracies to Come offers a dynamic look at the role pedagogy can play as an act of social, political, and cultural intervention against neoliberal rhetorics and economics. Riedner and Mahoney provide us with a hopeful vision of the ways in which public protest and public discourse can function as acts of critical resistance and as new modes of being and thinking. Drawing on critical theory, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, and rhetorical studies, Democracies to Come is also a model of interdisciplinary inquiry and scholarship in action. -- Eileen J. Schell, chair and director of the Writing Program, Syracuse UniversityDemocracies to Come does an excellent job defining and explaining how rhetorical action intervenes into neoliberal politics both inside and outside of the classroom, making it a good read for composition teachers who engage in service learning, participatory action research, or critical pedagogy. It is an important addition to composition scholarship in critical pedagogy and social action in that it is concerned with how neoliberalism, when left unchecked, can forestall even the best intentions for social justice. -- Rebecca Richards, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 1 Introduction Chapter 6 2 Articulating Action in a Neoliberal World Chapter 7 3 Circulation of Affect in University Spaces Chapter 8 4 Circulation of Benevolence Chapter 9 5 Affective Intervention: Rhetorics of Despair and Hope Chapter 10 6 "The War for the Word has Begun" Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index
£78.30
Lexington Books Post911 American Presidential Rhetoric A Study of
Book SynopsisPost-9/11 American Presidential Rhetoric examines the communication offensive orchestrated by George W. Bush and the members of his administration between the initial terrorism crisis of September 11, 2001 and the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq.Trade ReviewEveryone seems to believe that 'everything changed' after the events of 9/11/2001, although the meaning of that 'everything' continues to be debated in public discourse both in the U.S. and internationally. Colleen Kelley makes a powerful, careful, and refreshingly non-ideological case, well-grounded in the literatures of history and communication, for the emergence of what she calls 'proto-fascism' in the rhetoric of the Bush Administration. This book should be of wide interest, not only to scholars of the presidency, but to students and general readers interested in making sense of the dangerous new world we have entered since 9/11. -- James Arnt Aune, professor of communication, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 History of Fascism Chapter 2 The Rhetorical Presidency, Power, and Fascist Discourse Chapter 3 Presidential Discourse and Fascism Chapter 4 The Discourse of the Syndicate Chapter 5 The Discourse of the President Chapter 6 A Keystone Strategy Chapter 7 The Post-9/11 Rhetorical Doctrine Chapter 8 Implications of the Post-9/11 American Presidency Chapter 9 Voicing Democracy
£101.70
