The Grammar Of Society

Author : Cristina Bicchieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139447149

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The Grammar of Society by Cristina Bicchieri Pdf

In The Grammar of Society, first published in 2006, Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, such as fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity, in an effort to understand their nature and dynamics, the expectations that they generate, and how they evolve and change. Drawing on several intellectual traditions and methods, including those of social psychology, experimental economics and evolutionary game theory, Bicchieri provides an integrated account of how social norms emerge, why and when we follow them, and the situations where we are most likely to focus on relevant norms. Examining the existence and survival of inefficient norms, she demonstrates how norms evolve in ways that depend upon the psychological dispositions of the individual and how such dispositions may impair social efficiency. By contrast, she also shows how certain psychological propensities may naturally lead individuals to evolve fairness norms that closely resemble those we follow in most modern societies.

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351580878

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Introducing Discourse Analysis by James Paul Gee Pdf

Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society is a concise and accessible introduction by bestselling author, James Paul Gee, to the fundamental ideas behind different specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. The book stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, not unvarnished truth, but perspectives or viewpoints on reality. In turn, these perspectives are the material from which social interactions, social relations, identity, and politics make and remake society and culture. The book also offers an approach to how discourse analysis can contribute to lessening the ideological divides and echo chambers that so bedevil our world today. Organized in a user-friendly way with short numbered sections and recommended readings, Introducing Discourse Analysis is an essential primer for all students of discourse analysis within linguistics, education, communication studies, and related areas.

Author : Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781429985420

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Things That Make Us (Sic) by Martha Brockenbrough Pdf

This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as "irregardless," "expresso," or "disorientated"...and for the earnest souls who wonder if it's "Woe is Me," or "Woe is I," or even "Woe am I." Martha Brockenbrough's Things That Make Us (Sic) is a laugh-out-loud guide to grammar and language, a snarkier American answer to Lynn Truss's runaway success, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Brockenbrough is the founder of National Grammar Day and SPOGG -- the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar -- and as serious as she is about proper usage, her voice is funny, irreverent, and never condescending. Things That Make Us (Sic) addresses common language stumbling stones such as evil twins, clichés, jargon, and flab, and offers all the spelling tips, hints, and rules that are fit to print. It's also hugely entertaining, with letters to high-profile language abusers, including David Hasselhoff, George W. Bush, and Canada's Maple Leafs [sic], as well as a letter to --and a reply from -- Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Brockenbrough has written a unique compendium combining letters, pop culture references, handy cheat sheets, rants, and historical references that is as helpful as it is hilarious.

Author : Elinor Ochs,Emanuel A. Schegloff,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052155828X

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Interaction and Grammar by Elinor Ochs,Emanuel A. Schegloff,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

This volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.

Author : Mark Norris Lance,John P. Hawthorne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521583004

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The Grammar of Meaning by Mark Norris Lance,John P. Hawthorne Pdf

This study addresses a range of central topics in Anglo-American philosophy of language.

Author : Solveig Robinson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781554810741

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The Book in Society by Solveig Robinson Pdf

The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. Books can inform, entertain, inspire, irritate, liberate, or challenge readers, and their forms can be tangible and traditional, like a printed, casebound volume, or virtual and transitory, like a screen-page of a cell-phone novel. Written in clear, non-specialist prose, The Book in Society first provides an overview of the rise of the book and of the modern publishing and bookselling industries. It explores the evolution of written texts from early forms to contemporary formats, the interrelationship between literacy and technology, and the prospects for the book in the twenty-first century. The second half of the book is based on historian Robert Darnton’s concept of a book publishing “communication circuit.” It examines how books migrate from the minds of authors to the minds of readers, exploring such topics as the rise of the modern notion of the author, the role of states and others in promoting or restricting the circulation of books, various modes of reproducing and circulating texts, and how readers’ responses help shape the form and content of the books available to them. Feature boxes highlighting key texts, individuals, and developments in the history of the book, carefully selected illustrations, and a glossary all help bring the history of the book to life.

Author : Dan C. Shahar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000466386

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Why It's OK to Eat Meat by Dan C. Shahar Pdf

Vegetarians have argued at great length that meat-eating is wrong. Even so, the vast majority of people continue to eat meat, and even most vegetarians eventually give up on their diets. Does this prove these people must be morally corrupt? In Why It’s OK to Eat Meat, Dan C. Shahar argues the answer is no: it’s entirely possible to be an ethical person while continuing to eat meat—and not just the "fancy" offerings from the farmers' market but also the regular meat we find at most supermarkets and restaurants. Shahar’s examination forcefully echoes vegetarians’ concerns about the meat industry’s impacts on animals, workers, the environment, and public health. However, he shows that the most influential ethical arguments for avoiding meat on the basis of these considerations are ultimately unpersuasive. Instead of insisting we all become vegetarians, Shahar argues each of us has broad latitude to choose which of the world’s problems to tackle, in what ways, and to what extents, and hence people can decline to take up this particular form of activism without doing anything wrong. Key Features First book-length defense of meat-eating written for a popular audience Punchy, accessible introduction to the multifaceted debate over the ethics of eating meat Includes pioneering new examinations of humane labeling practices Shows why appeals to universalized patterns of behavior can’t vindicate vegetarians’ claims that there’s a duty to avoid meat Develops a novel theory of ethical activism with potential applications to a wide range of other issues

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : PSU:000001613032

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The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones Pdf

Author : Tom Roeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262250580

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The Prism of Grammar by Tom Roeper Pdf

Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar—and reveal the innate structures of the mind. Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of information to different domains of mind—memory, vision, emotions, intentions. In The Prism of Grammar, Tom Roeper brings the abstract principles behind modern grammar to life by exploring the astonishing intricacies of child language. Adult expressions provide endless puzzles for the child to solve. The individual child's solutions ("Don't uncomfortable the cat" is one example) may amuse adults but they also reveal the complexity of language and the challenges of mastering it. The tiniest utterances, says Roeper, reflect the whole mind and engage the child's free will and sense of dignity. He offers numerous and novel "explorations"—many at the cutting edge of current work—that anyone can try, even in conversation around the dinner table. They elicit how the child confronts "recursion"—the heartbeat of grammar—through endless possessives ("John's mother's friend's car"), mysterious plurals, contradictory adjectives, the marvels of ellipsis, and the deep obscurity of reference ("there it is, right here"). They are not tests of skill; they are tools for discovery and delight, not diagnosis. Each chapter on acquisition begins with a commonsense look at how structures work—moving from the simple to the complex—and then turns to the literary and human dimensions of grammar. One important human dimension is the role of dialect in society and in the lives of children. Roeper devotes three chapters to the structure of African-American English and the challenge of responding to linguistic prejudice. Written in a lively style, accessible and gently provocative, The Prism of Grammar is for parents and teachers as well as students—for everyone who wants to understand how children gain and use language—and anyone interested in the social, philosophical, and ethical implications of how we see the growing mind emerge.

Author : Helen Spencer-Oatey,Dániel Z. Kádár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107176225

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Intercultural Politeness by Helen Spencer-Oatey,Dániel Z. Kádár Pdf

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first book to systemise the processes by which we manage relations across cultures.

Author : William Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Marathi language
ISBN : OXFORD:N13567745

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A Grammar of the Mahratta Language by William Carey Pdf

Author : James Witt Sewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 1892331926

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Classical Grammar by James Witt Sewell Pdf

Author : Rodney Huddleston,Rodney D. Huddleston,Geoffrey K. Pullum,Brett Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781316514641

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A Student's Introduction to English Grammar by Rodney Huddleston,Rodney D. Huddleston,Geoffrey K. Pullum,Brett Reynolds Pdf

A new edition of the ground-breaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar, now completely rewritten and updated.

Author : Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher : London, Allen & Unwin [1925]
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN : UOM:39015020453299

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A Grammar of Politics by Harold Joseph Laski Pdf

Author : John S. Dryzek,Richard B. Norgaard,David Schlosberg
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191618574

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The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society by John S. Dryzek,Richard B. Norgaard,David Schlosberg Pdf

Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues, social and political reception of climate science, the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of the social disruptions caused by climate change, the economics of those disruptions and possible responses to them, questions of human security and social justice, obligations to future generations, policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and governance at local, regional, national, international, and global levels.