Language

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961334052Author L E MaroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Untimely BooksPublisher Untimely BooksWeight(grams) 621g

Playing a key role in our lives, as a vehicle for our thoughts and a powerful medium of communication, language is at the centre of philosophical investigation. The fifteen specially commissioned essays in this book introduce and explore the ideas of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931446877Author Moustafa GadallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Tehuti Research FoundationPublisher Tehuti Research FoundationWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950860036Author Raphael IsraeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLCPublisher Strategic Book...

At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224339679Author Moustafa GadallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Moustafa GadallaPublisher Moustafa GadallaWeight(grams) 236g

The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and sociocultural-interactional pragmatics. SCA broadens the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986316024Author Micah EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Micah EvansPublisher Micah EvansWeight(grams) 133g

Parody and Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberalism provides comic relief in a neoliberal era and argues that parody can be used to creatively benefit our practices of self-narration and quests for knowledge. This seriously playful book demonstrates how...

Kantian and Hegelian conceptions of freedom guide this collection of essays that engage with the linguistic turn in continental philosophy to explore contemporary interpretations of freedom. Using a broad approach to the tradition of German Idealism,...

Dolf Rami contributes to contemporary debates about the meaning and reference of proper names by providing an overview of the main challenges and developing a new contextualist account of names. Questions about the use and semantic features of proper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964466562Author Thomas J HickeyFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Thomas J. HickeyPublisher Thomas J. HickeyWeight(grams) 562g

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551991Author Andrew InkpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

This marks the first time Linguistics and Philosophy, published in France in 1969, has been translated into English. Here, philosopher Etienne Gilson examines linguistics-from Descartes to Derrida-as he argues for the irreducibility of thought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964466555Author Thomas J HickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288074Author Ben BlumsonFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008953055Author David John OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782970037606Author Peter McCareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Molecular PressPublisher Molecular PressWeight(grams) 426g

This marks the first time Linguistics and Philosophy, published in France in 1969, has been translated into English. Here, philosopher Etienne Gilson examines linguistics-from Descartes to Derrida-as he argues for the irreducibility of thought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789543840779Author Jonathan DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Small Stations PressPublisher Small Stations PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity in English Language Learning Texts offers a fresh and relevant interrogation of educational materials for all students, researchers, and educators engaging in critical language study. Drawing on her own extensive...

Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949966145Author Eric GansFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 386g

One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the...

The common feature of many present-day "new realisms" is a general diagnosis according to which, with Kant, Western philosophy lost any contact with the outside world. In The Untruth of Reality, Jure Simoniti, in contrast, points out the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288067Author Ben BlumsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Expressivism has been dominating much of the metaethical debate of the past three decades. The aim of this book is to address a number of questions that have been neglected in the previous discussion.These primarily concern the psychological commitments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956005004Author Brad BaumgartnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 191g

This book studies the origins of language. It presents language as the product of a unique non-linguistic cognitive feature (i.e. metacognition) that emerged late in human evolution. Within this framework, the author lays special emphasis on the tight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649198914Author Kaustav SanyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885881458Author Ruth KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Israel Academic PressPublisher Israel Academic PressWeight(grams) 152g

Words Underway offers the first full account of the important contributions the Continental tradition has made to the philosophy of language. Carolyn Culbertson examines the vital work of a range of thinkers, including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot, and...

When we use language, we presuppose many different things. Context is another name for these presuppositions. But it also can be the name of all these different presuppositions ordered in a certain way. This study of context focuses on the differences...

Concept auditing is based on an innovative premise for philosophers: when they address an everyday life conception on the order of knowledge, truth, justice, fairness, beauty, or the like and purport to be dealing with what it involves, then they must...

Open Compositionality: Towards a New Methodology of Language argues that natural languages, like English and Spanish, are not only systems of representation useful for communication but also, and most importantly, highly interactive cognitive capacities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998531861Author Sean BrauneFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985643577Author Jim BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Jim BoydPublisher Jim BoydWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985643584Author Jim BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Jim BoydPublisher Jim BoydWeight(grams) 227g

A classic volume by a noted philosopher, available again. John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, where from 1945 to 1960 he was Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His extraordinary teaching is described in...