Philosophies of Language and Linguistics: Plato, Aristotle, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Bloomfield, Russell, Quine, Searle, Chomsky, and Pinker on Languag

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is about what ten renowned philosophers and/or linguists as well as the author think about language and how we have to investi...

Described by the New York Times as arguably the most important intellectual alive, Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influe...

Reducere. How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Shakespearean English difficult for us...

In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his thoughts concerning language, human nature and politics with Professor o...

How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did langua...

Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining w...

Reducere. In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how ch...

Reducere. The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven PinkerLanguage, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influe...

A compact INTRODUCING guide to the seminal linguist and irrepressible critic of right-wing America.

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Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of...

A lifetime of research into linguistics, cognitive science and political theory is reflected on in this set of conclusions, including a philosophic...

One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.

The fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark work in generative grammar that continues to be influential, with a new preface by the author.

Reducere. Noam Chomsky's book is a serious attempt to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language whi...

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Reducere. The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the boo...

Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the hist...

Reducere. Quietly passionate and urgently intent, this book belongs to the very best tradition of depth psychology. It appeals first of all to the intelligen...

DescriptionThis completely new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky surveys Chomsky's contributions to the science of language, to socioec...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Russell WalkerAuthor: Rafael TavaresThis book is a study companion written in plain English, which explains the things that...

DescriptionA boy makes a paper plane and accidentally throws it over the wall. Little does he know that another boy called Joe lives on the other s...

The first systematic analysis of Aristotle's concept of lexis, which is approached on three interconnected levels: the first dealing with language ...

Reducere. In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English""Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the e...

Reducere. The Dictionary of Mind, Matter, and Morals contains more than 1000 selections from over 100 of Russell's books and articles. It serves as an introd...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Ro...

Challenging accepted views about the differences between the thought of two of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy, this volume demon...

Reducere. This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrati...

Reducere. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is the 3rd book in the Language and Human Nature Tetralogy Series. From bestselling author Steph...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Pli...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): John SearleNumber of pages: 128Collection: Columbia Themes in PhilosophyPublication date: 2008Dimens...

Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Lang...

Reducere. A tested approach to learning biblical Hebrew in an ideal package for the first-year Hebrew student. This clear, accurate, and pedagogically sound ...

Reducere. The Ultimate Language Notebook is a vocabulary notebook to learn any language. The notebook makes it easier to learn new vocabulary. There are 72 t...