Language

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...

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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...

Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of language-metaphor-gives shape and boundary to the landscape of the discipline. The book examines metaphors of combat, play, and aesthetic experience and...

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...

With the recent publication of works from Heidegger's Collected Edition, it has become evident that language occupied a central place in his thought "from early on," as he claimed in his later years. Heidegger's Path to Language takes on the...

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...

Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language examines the central arguments in Cassirer's first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Gregory Moss demonstrates both how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form and how he borrows the...

Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility...

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) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645434477Author Emily Constance JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dunwich HousePublisher Dunwich HouseWeight(grams) 95g

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

First published in 1990, Philosophers’ Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers’ readings of poets and other distinctive writers. There are those, for example, who find in literary examples ways of exploring the concrete significance of...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406074250Author Helene Barthelmebs-RaguinFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279270Author David CockburnFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

The application of philosophy to language study, and language study to philosophy, has experienced demonstrable intellectual growth and diversification in recent decades. Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics comprehensively...

First published in 1988, Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth examines the forms of anti-realism which have sprouted in analytic philosophy and addresses more directly the grander culture of anti-realism. No attempt is made in these pages to...

The Limits of Language concerns itself with the nature and limits of language at a time when our understanding of the world and of ourselves is intimately related to what we understand of language.Book InformationISBN 9780823215188Author Stephen David...

In What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor's concept of "negritude" and Zora Neale Hurston's view of "Negro expression...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789543840014Author Jonathan DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Small Stations PressPublisher Small Stations PressWeight(grams) 140g

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy - Volume 36Book InformationISBN 9788772897714Author Finn CollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 232g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787356320Author Martin P. J. EdwardesFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783200146Author Stanley RaffelFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect BooksWeight(grams) 282g

Focusing on the importance of formal experimentation for matters of content and meaning, this original interpretation of what Woolf called her "play-poem" argues that with its depiction of a certain social setting-populated by individuals that...

Werner Hamacher's witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities-and particularly academic philology-that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars of literature and philosophy...

The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for...

From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass," the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed...

The papers in this collection discuss the central questions about the connections between language, reality and human understanding. The complex relations between accounts of meaning and facts about ordinary speakers' understanding of their language are...

A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our assumptions about dialogue and, in so doing, about...

Michael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy and continental philosophy as well as social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He addresses important questions such as whether words are able to capture...

This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology.Using the grasp of a natural language as a model for the autonomous or...

This book, originally published in 1987, considers how the science of linguistics creates its own objects of study. It argues that language is the one essential tool in the `social construction of reality' - the way in which our environment as we...

Originally published in 1990, this book centres on a certain way of surveying a variety of theories of language, and on outlining a new proposal of meaning within the framework set by the survey. One of the key features of both survey and proposal is the...

First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its 'object' by separating 'relevant' from 'irrelevant' phenomena - excluding the latter. This leaves a 'remainder' which consists of the untidy, creative part of how...