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Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052101624X
In this 2002 book, Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind and brain.
Author : David F. Armstrong,William C. Stokoe,Sherman E. Wilcox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521467721
This book proposes a radical alternative to dominant views of the evolution of language, in particular the origins of syntax. The authors draw on evidence from areas such as primatology, anthropology, and linguistics to present a groundbreaking account of the notion that language emerged through visible bodily action. Written in a clear and accessible style, Gesture and the Nature of Language will be indispensable reading for all those interested in the origins of language.
Author : Elliot Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108836319
Develops a theory of how language is processed in the brain and provides a state-of-the-art review of current neuroscientific debates.
Author : Dieter Hillert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781493906093
The Nature of Language addresses one of the most fundamental questions of mankind: how did language evolve, and what are the neurobiological and cognitive foundations of language processing? These questions are explored from different perspectives to discuss the building blocks of language evolution and how they developed in the way they can be found in modern humans. Primarily, neural mapping methods of cognition presented in this research provide extremely valuable data about the neural circuitries that are involved in language processing. Thus, the book explores and illustrates cortical mapping in typical language patterns, but also cortical mapping in atypical populations that fail to process particular language aspects. A neurobiological stance is used to inquire about how language abilities of our species evolved to communicate for the purposes of conveying information such as ideas, emotions, goals, and humor. The evolutionary language model presented builds on the cognitive abilities of our ancestors, and it allows readers to draw a variety of expansive conclusions from that, including the idea that human language as an interface system provides the basis for consciousness.
Author : Geoffrey Gorham,Benjamin Hill,Edward Slowik,C. Kenneth Waters
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452951850
Galileo’s dictum that the book of nature “is written in the language of mathematics” is emblematic of the accepted view that the scientific revolution hinged on the conceptual and methodological integration of mathematics and natural philosophy. Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex, contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiography has indicated, and that philosophical controversies about the implications of mathematization cannot be understood in isolation from broader social developments related to the status and practice of mathematics in various commercial, political, and academic institutions. Contributors: Roger Ariew, U of South Florida; Richard T. W. Arthur, McMaster U; Lesley B. Cormack, U of Alberta; Daniel Garber, Princeton U; Ursula Goldenbaum, Emory U; Dana Jalobeanu, U of Bucharest; Douglas Jesseph, U of South Florida; Carla Rita Palmerino, Radboud U, Nijmegen and Open U of the Netherlands; Eileen Reeves, Princeton U; Christopher Smeenk, Western U; Justin E. H. Smith, U of Paris 7; Kurt Smith, Bloomsburg U of Pennsylvania.
Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135662882
This book was first published in 1922, Language is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
Author : Alan K. Melby,C. Terry Warner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027216144
This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-language texts (domain texts for short) than on dynamic general-language texts (general texts for short). The authors explore this general domain distinction and come to some uncommon conclusions about the nature of language. Domain language is claimed to be made possible by general language, while general language is claimed to be made possible by the ethical dimensions of relationships. Domain language is unharmed by the constraints of objectivism, while general language is suffocated by those constraints. Along the way to these conclusions, visits are made to Descartes and Saussure, to Chomsky and Lakoff, to Wittgenstein and Levinas. From these conclusions, consequences are drawn for machine translation and translator tools, for linguistic theory and translation theory. The title of the book does not question whether language is possible; it asks, with wonder and awe, why communication through language is possible.
Author : David Lukas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Creative writing
ISBN : 0983489122
Author : Howard Jackson,Peter Stockwell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441121516
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Author : Mark Halpern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351509824
"Language and Human Nature" exposes a century's worth of flawed thinking about language, to exhibit some of the dangers it presents, and to suggest a path to recovery. It begins by examining the causes of changes in the English vocabulary. These sometimes take the form of new words, but more often that of new senses for old words. In the course of this examination, Halpern discusses a wide variety of verbal solecisms, vulgarisms, and infelicities generally. His objective is not to deplore such things, but to expose the reasons for their existence, the human traits that generate them.A large part of this book is devoted to contesting the claims of academic linguists to be the only experts in the study of language change. Language is too central to civilized life to be so deeply misunderstood without causing a multitude of troubles throughout our culture. We are currently experiencing such troubles, a number of which are examined here. The exposure of linguists' misunderstandings is not an end in itself, but a necessary first step in recovery from the confusion we are now enmeshed in.The picture of the relationship between words and thoughts that is part of the attempt to deal with language "scientifically" is partly responsible for dangerous cultural developments. The attempt by linguists to treat their subject scientifically makes them view meaning as an irritating complication to be ignored if possible. It turns them into formalists who try to understand language by studying its physical representations, with a resort to semantics only when unavoidable. With words practically stripped of their role as bearers of meaning, it becomes easy to see them as unimportant. Halpern's book is a serious critique of such oversimplified theorizing.
Author : Ben Kessler
Publisher : ICRL Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781936033249
In the midst of ecological catastrophe, indigenous persecution, and the attempted mechanization of the living world, the beauty of the earth remains defiantly vibrant. The voice of the world still speaks in tongues of wind and water, feather and flame, whether we listen or not. Alternately lyric and scientific, critical and moving, Ben Kessler examines the relationships between nature and language, colonial and native cultures, and extinction and memory, and in doing so presents a unique vision of our place in an ancient, fragile living world. Kessler is a teacher, field biologist, gardener, activist, painter, and nurseryman. He lives in a little hollow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101202609
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now. "Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty." --The New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199328741
Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty-year career, exploring his favorite themes in greater depth and scientific detail. It includes thirteen of Pinker's classic articles, ranging over topics such as language development in children, mental imagery, the recognition of shapes, the computational architecture of the mind, the meaning and uses of verbs, the evolution of language and cognition, the nature-nurture debate, and the logic of innuendo and euphemism. Each outlines a major theory or takes up an argument with another prominent scholar, such as Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky, or Richard Dawkins.
Author : Adele E. Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199268517
Includes selected classic and contemporary papers in four areas, this text introduces each field, providing technical background for the non-specialist and explaining the underlying connections across the disciplines.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062032522
"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.