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  • Fixing Reference

    par Imogen Dickie ...
    Collection series Context & Content
    Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, causalist alternatives, and attempts to combine the most attractive elements of each. The account developed here is a new beginning. It starts with two ... En savoir plus

    32,38 €

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  • The Science of Language

    Interviews with James McGilvray

    par Noam Chomsky, James McGilvray ...
    Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics – the nature of ... En savoir plus

    29,69 €

  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

    Selected Articles

    par Steven Pinker ...
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. 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 ... En savoir plus

    20,69 €

  • How to Study for a Mathematics Degree

    par Lara Alcock ...
    Every year, thousands of students go to university to study mathematics (single honours or combined with another subject). Many of these students are extremely intelligent and hardworking, but even the best will, at some point, struggle with the demands of making the transition to advanced mathematics. Some have difficulty adjusting to independent study and to learning from lectures. Other ... En savoir plus

    22,49 €

  • How to Study as a Mathematics Major

    par Lara Alcock ...
    Every year, thousands of students in the USA declare mathematics as their major. Many are extremely intelligent and hardworking. However, even the best will encounter challenges, because upper-level mathematics involves not only independent study and learning from lectures, but also a fundamental shift from calculation to proof. This shift is demanding but it need not be mysterious -- research has ... En savoir plus

    21,59 €

  • Pragmatics

    par Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Collection series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... En savoir plus

    70,51 €

  • Philosophy of Language

    par Scott Soames ...
    Collection series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such ... En savoir plus

    22,89 €

  • Vagueness

    par Timothy Williamson ...
    Collection series Problems of Philosophy
    If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a ... En savoir plus

    58,30 €

  • Figurative Language

    par Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Collection series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is ... En savoir plus

    42,06 €

  • The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

    par Marie McGinn ...
    Collection series The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
    Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition. In his Philosophical Investigations he undertakes a radical critique of analytical philosophy's approach to both the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations introduces and assesses:Wittgenstein's lifeThe ... En savoir plus

    35,22 €

  • Meaning and Relevance

    par Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber ...
    When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts ... En savoir plus

    53,20 €

  • The Psychology of Learning Mathematics

    Expanded American Edition

    par Richard R. Skemp ...
    This classic text presents problems of learning and teaching mathematics from both a psychological and mathematical perspective. The Psychology of Learning Mathematics, already translated into six languages (including Chinese and Japanese), has been revised for this American Edition to include the author's most recent findings on the formation of mathematical concepts, different kinds of imagery, ... En savoir plus

    60,73 €