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Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race by H. Samy Alim
RRP: £37.99£37.68Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us... -
The Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze 9780231059831
RRP: £21.95£16.70Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games,... -
Archeology of Personalities: a linguistic approach to erotic rope bondage by Osada Steve 9781546378341
RRP: £25.00£19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546378341Author Addie TahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph 9780967967509
RRP: £19.99£15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967967509Author Sister Miriam JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 475g -
Humboldt: 'On Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species by Wilhelm von Humboldt
RRP: £34.99£30.94Wilhelm von Humboldt's classic study of human language was first published in 1836, as a general introduction to his three-volume treatise on the Kawi language of Java. It is the final statement of his lifelong study of the nature of language, exploring... -
Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting On-line Resources To Build A Lexicon by Uri Zernik
£77.47On-line information -- and free text in particular -- has emerged as a major, yet unexploited, resource available in raw form. Available, but not accessible. The lexicon provides the major key for enabling accessibility to on-line text. The expert... -
Bakhtin and his Others: (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism by Liisa Steinby 9781783083312
RRP: £25.00£23.30'Bakhtin and his Others' aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on... -
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language by Umberto Eco
RRP: £20.99£17.98"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature...this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." -Times Literary SupplementReviews"Eco... -
From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning by Robin Cooper
RRP: £100.00£90.50This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book characterizes... -
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
RRP: £12.99£9.09This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch... -
Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs (Third Edition) by David H Petraeus
RRP: £19.95£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986238604Author David H PetraeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Cultures Direct PressPublisher Cultures Direct PressWeight(grams)... -
Killing in War by Jeff McMahan 9780199603572
RRP: £19.99£17.13Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that... -
Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values by Bianca Cepollaro 9781793610522
RRP: £81.00£74.51What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language not only reflect speakers' moral perspectives, but... -
The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language by Paul Ricoeur
RRP: £18.99£17.65Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing the... -
The Art of Disagreeing Well: How To Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo 9780008498658
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Electrifying ... A user manual for our polarized world' Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again 'Important, compelling and wise' Johann Hari, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Stolen Focus Everyone... -
The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us by Nello Cristianini
RRP: £22.99£21.11- The author is one of the most influential AI reseachers of recent decades.- Written in an accessible language, the book provides a probing account of AI today and proposes a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that happened in the recent... -
Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood by Jennifer Mather Saul 9780192871756
RRP: £25.00£21.19Pinpoints how "dogwhistles" and "figleaves," two kinds of linguistic trick, distort political discourse and normalize racism It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly... -
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction by Zoltan Kovecses 9780195374940
£46.12Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters-on 'metaphors in... -
Words And Rules by Steven Pinker
RRP: £12.99£8.18One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making... -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £18.95£15.03Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else-the play of mourning. Howard... -
Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames 9780691155975
RRP: £22.00£16.99A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkersIn this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field-its principal achievements, its most pressing current... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781839982095
RRP: £25.00£23.30This new edition of Wittgenstein's book, strictly following the author's recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and dissolves several false problems that had deceived readers and scholars for a century. The faithful... -
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £24.95£19.88The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices... -
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns by Bruno Latour
RRP: £25.95£20.62Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated-a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth... -
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: £16.99£13.34Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation... -
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning by Scott Soames
RRP: £28.00£21.36In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole 9781783964581
RRP: £14.99£9.72`Probably the most compulsive text ever penned about what it means to handle and possess a book' - Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts; `A real treasure trove for book lovers' - Alexander McCall Smith; We love books. We... -
New Ways of Seeing by Grant Scott
RRP: £23.99£21.98Those born since the digital revolution, seem to have the hardest time re-imagining the role of photography in the world today. Thinking of photography as a visual language is the approach this book adopts to addresses this challenge.Considering... -
Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1 by Donald Davidson
RRP: £35.49£30.50Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events... -
Pragmatics in English: An Introduction by Kate Scott
RRP: £24.99£21.78Pragmatics - the study of language in context, and of how we understand what other people say - is a core subject in English language, linguistics, and communication studies. This textbook introduces the key topics in this fast-moving field, including... -
Scientific Testimony: Its Roles in Science and Society by Mikkel Gerken 9780198857273
RRP: £71.00£64.64Scientific Testimony concerns the roles of scientific testimony in science and society. The book develops a positive alternative to a tradition famously expressed by the slogan of the Royal Society Nullius in verba ("Take nobody's word for it"). This... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop
RRP: £19.99£17.13In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts,... -
Dissemination by Jacques Derrida 9781474243711
RRP: £23.99£20.94First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in... -
Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics: Cambridge by Ludwig Wittgenstein
£24.12From his return to Cambridge in 1929 to his death in 1951, Wittgenstein influenced philosophy almost exclusively through teaching and discussion. These lecture notes indicate what he considered to be salient features of his thinking in this period of his... -
Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations by Herman Cappelen 9780192894724
RRP: £34.99£32.01Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist tradition in... -
200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy by Anja Steinbauer
RRP: £9.99£6.61Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a... -
The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: £10.99£7.32Lucid, compelling, enlightening "Marcolongo is today's Montaigne."-Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."-The Guardian "Marcolongo uses the secrets of the Ancient... -
Jam Tomorrow?: Why time really matters in economics by Charles Crowson 9781915635624
RRP: £16.99£14.10Over 100 years ago, Einstein changed the way we understood time from being a fixed measurement to a relative one which, rather than being 'correct' as it had been before, was now 'proper' to the body concerned. While physics, especially at the quantum... -
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by Michel Foucault
RRP: £27.99£23.66Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most... -
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works by David Crystal
RRP: £11.99£10.62A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and,...