Language And Imaginability

Author : Horst Ruthrof
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443858526

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Language and Imaginability by Horst Ruthrof Pdf

Language and Imaginability pursues the hypothesis that natural language is fundamentally heterosemiotic, combining as it does the symbolicity of word sounds with the iconicity of motivated signifieds conceived as socially organized mental events. Viewed phenomenologically, language is regarded as an ontically heteronomous construct performed by speakers within the boundaries of sufficient semiosis under the control of the speech community. From both angles, a commitment to some form of intersubjective mentalism appears unavoidable. This, the author argues, forces us to conclude that imaginability plays a central role in the constitution of linguistic meanings as indirectly public phenomena. The book argues this case by comparing two main avenues along which the theorization of language has been pursued in the Western tradition since Aristotle, via resemblance relations and propositional accounts. Locke, Kant, Peirce, Husserl and cognitive linguistics are invoked on the side of resemblance and iconicity; Frege, Wittgenstein, Davidson and other analytical philosophers up to intensional semantics are interpreted in terms of their relation to imaginability. The book also addresses the ambivalence vis-à-vis iconicity which we find in much of linguistics, in brain research and evolutionary accounts, as well as in pragmatics. The study ends on a series of redefinitions of concepts at the heart of the theorization of language.

Author : Horst Ruthrof
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350230897

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Husserl's Phenomenology of Natural Language by Horst Ruthrof Pdf

Horst Ruthrof revisits Husserl's phenomenology of language and highlights his late writings as essential to understanding the full range of his ideas. Focusing on the idea of language as imaginable as well as the role of a speech community in constituting it, Ruthrof provides a powerful re-assessment of his methodological phenomenology. From the Logical Investigations to untranslated portions of his Nachlass, Ruthrof charts all the developments and amendments in his theorizations. Ruthrof argues that it is the intersubjective character to linguistic meaning that is so emblematic of Husserl's position. Bringing his study up to the present day, Ruthrof discusses mental time travel, the evolution of language, and protosyntax in the context of Husserl's late writings, progressing a comprehensive new phenomenological ontology of language with wide-ranging implications for philosophy, linguistics, and cultural studies.

Author : Horst Ruthrof
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031186370

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The Roots of Hermeneutics in Kant's Reflective-Teleological Judgment by Horst Ruthrof Pdf

This book challenges the standard view that modern hermeneutics begins with Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher, arguing instead that it is the dialectic of reflective and teleological reason in Kant’s Critique of Judgment that provides the actual proto-hermeneutic foundation. It is revolutionary in doing so by replacing interpretive truth claims by the more appropriate claim of rendering opaque contexts intelligible. Taking Gadamer’s comprehensive analysis of hermeneutics in Truth and Method (1960) as its point of departure, the book turns to Kant’s Critiques, reviewing his major concepts as a coherent system in relation to his sensus communis. At the heart of the book is the interaction between reflective, bottom-up search and teleological, top-down interpretative projection as provided in Part II of the third Critique. This text contends that Kant’s broad definition of nature invites the liberation of the reflective-teleological judgment from its biological exemplifications and so permits us to establish its generalised status as a path-breaking, methodological tool. Kant’s dialectic of reflective search and meaning bestowing, stipulated teleology is asserted to anticipate a series of motifs commonly associated with hermeneutics. Figures covered include Dilthey, Husserl, Ingarden, Heidegger, Gadamer, Apel, Habermas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze, Vattimo, Nancy and Caputo. Their collective contributions to interpretation allow for a review of the evolution of hermeneutics from the perspective of the Kantian critique of the limitations of human cognition. The book is written for the informed, general reader, but will likewise appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Jonathan Ellis,Daniel Guevara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199737666

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Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind by Jonathan Ellis,Daniel Guevara Pdf

Based on a conference held in June 2007 at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263568

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The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction by María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers, as their name indicates, are among the explicit signals of coherence, while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly, the discourse used for purposes of evaluation, stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert, as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This, in general terms, is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation, comparing languages, analysing different registers, studying the openings of Skype conversations, and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis, interaction studies, semantics and pragmatics.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781595587619

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On Language by Noam Chomsky Pdf

The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume—an ideal introduction to his work. On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language. “Language and Responsibility is a well-organized, clearly written and comprehensive introduction to Chomsky’s thought.” —The New York Times Book Review “Language and Responsibility brings together in one readable volume Chomsky’s positions on issues ranging from politics and philosophy of science to recent advances in linguistic theory. . . . The clarity of presentation at times approaches that of Bertrand Russell in his political and more popular philosophical essays.” —Contemporary Psychology “Reflections on Language is profoundly satisfying and impressive. It is the clearest and most developed account of the case of universal grammar and of the relations between his theory of language and the innate faculties of mind responsible for language acquisition and use.” —Patrick Flanagan

Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134683222

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Second Language Learning and Language Teaching by Vivian Cook Pdf

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no previous background in second language acquisition or language teaching methods, this text starts by introducing readers to the basic issues of second language acquisition research. It then examines how people learn particular aspects of the second language, such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the writing system, and at the strategies they adopt in their learning and the differences between individuals. Final chapters look at second language learning in a broader context – the goals of language teaching and how teaching methods relate to SLA research. This newly updated fifth edition builds on the comprehensive scope of earlier editions while also addressing more recent developments in the field, particularly multilingual approaches to language teaching.

Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0801483476

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Liberty's Daughters by Mary Beth Norton Pdf

Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026545603

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Papers of the Meeting by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442957824

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Blaze of Glory (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : 鈴木憲夫
Publisher : 春風社
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9784861101144

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Reflection's on Chomsky's Strong Minimalist Thesis by 鈴木憲夫 Pdf

チョムスキーによる言語習得の理論

Author : Richard Swift
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781678116194

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The One Year Illustrations Club by Richard Swift Pdf

Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066414993

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The Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth F. Ellet Pdf

"The Women of the American Revolution" by Elizabeth F. Ellet. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015000625841

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Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky Pdf

In this collection of Chomsky's lectures, the first three essays describe linguistic contributions to the study of the mind and the last three discuss the relationship among linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

Author : Edward P. Nowell,John William Orr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030027339920

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The American Odd Fellow by Edward P. Nowell,John William Orr Pdf