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Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race by H. Samy Alim
€45.86Raciolinguistics 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: €26.12€22.40Considered 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: €29.75€23.43Apologies 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... -
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: €41.64€36.82Wilhelm 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
€88.06On-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: €29.75€27.73'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: €24.98€21.40"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... -
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608
RRP: €32.13€31.50Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously... -
From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning by Robin Cooper
RRP: €119.00€107.70This 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: €15.46€11.57This 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: €23.74€20.15Apologies 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
€23.79Killing 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: €96.39€88.67What 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 Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter
RRP: €13.67€11.58Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This... -
The Art of Disagreeing Well: How To Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo 9780008498658
RRP: €22.60€19.97'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: €27.36€23.99- 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: €29.75€25.22Pinpoints 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... -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: €22.55€17.89Origin 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... -
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction by Zoltan Kovecses 9780195374940
€36.09Combining 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: €15.46€10.23One 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... -
Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames 9780691155975
RRP: €26.18€20.22A 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... -
Proper English: Myths and Misunderstandings about Language by Ronald Wardhaugh 9780631212683
RRP: €105.85€91.89This books explores why it is we believe what we believe about language, and why we persist in handing down from generation to generation a rag bag collection of fact and fantasy about language.About the AuthorRonald Wardhaugh was until recently... -
New Ways of Seeing by Grant Scott
RRP: €28.55€24.98Those 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... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781839982095
RRP: €29.75€27.73This 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: €29.69€23.66The 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: €30.88€24.54Over 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... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205
RRP: €35.64€34.93In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at... -
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: €20.22€15.87Our 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: €33.32€25.42In 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: €17.84€11.57`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... -
Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1 by Donald Davidson
RRP: €42.23€36.30Donald 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: €29.74€25.92Pragmatics - 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: €84.49€76.92Scientific 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: €23.79€20.38In 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: €28.55€24.92First 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... -
The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language by Paul Ricoeur
RRP: €22.60€20.08Paul 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... -
Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations by Herman Cappelen 9780192894724
RRP: €41.64€38.09Can 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... -
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition by Saul A. Kripke 9780631135210
RRP: €30.88€26.89In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.About the AuthorBorn in Bay Shore, New York, the son of a rabbi (Myer Samuel) and a writer (Dorothy Karp), Saul... -
The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method by Richard Rorty 9780226725697
RRP: €35.70€34.81The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how... -
200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy by Anja Steinbauer
RRP: €11.89€8.09Have 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...