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Handbook of Philosophical Logic: Volume 15

Handbook of Philosophical Logic: Volume 15

Author: Dov M. Gabbay ,  Franz Guenthner
ISBN: 9789400704848
Format: Hardback
$498.96

Lambda Calculi: A Guide Interpolation and Definability Discourse Representation Theory  Read More >>

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amadya

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amadya

Author: Jared Greenblatt
ISBN: 9789004182578
Format: Hardback
$821.04

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Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woof of Argumentation Analysis

Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woof of Argumentation...

Author: F.H. van Eemeren ,  Peter Houtlosser
ISBN: 9789048160570
Format: Paperback
$419.76

In 1999 we invited a small number of colleagues to take part in a colloquium - voted to the analysis of argumentative...  Read More >>

Semantic Indexicality

Semantic Indexicality

Author: M.J. Cresswell
ISBN: 9789048146642
Format: Paperback
$406.56

Semantic Indexicality shows how a simple syntax can be combined with a propositional language at the level of logical...  Read More >>

Natural Language Information Retrieval

Natural Language Information Retrieval

Author: T. Strzalkowski
ISBN: 9789048152094
Format: Paperback
$604.56

Since we assume that the information is primarily encoded as text, IR is also a natural language processing problem:...  Read More >>

The Practice of Language

The Practice of Language

Author: M. Gustafsson ,  L. Hertzberg
ISBN: 9789048160532
Format: Paperback
$366.96

How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice?  Read More >>

Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science

Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought, and Reality from the...

Author: Ben Goertzel
ISBN: 9781441932389
Format: Paperback
$525.36

My goal in writing this book was to go directly to the core of mental process, ""where angels fear to tread"" --...  Read More >>

Analogy and Structure

Analogy and Structure

Author: R. Skousen
ISBN: 9789048141968
Format: Paperback
$704.88

Optimal Descriptions: The implicit assumption of structuralist descriptions (namely, that descriptions of behavior...  Read More >>

Language, Meaning, Interpretation

Language, Meaning, Interpretation

Author: Guttorm Fløistad
ISBN: 9789048166107
Format: Paperback
$287.76

The discussion of these issues involves analytical approaches, including semantics and semiotics, philosophy of...  Read More >>

Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing: Evidence From R C Attachment Preferences in Greek

Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing: Evidence...

Author: Despoina Papadopoulou
ISBN: 9789048171712
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Sentence processing necessarily involves a syntactic analysis of the sentence, usually referred to as parsing, which...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein, Language and Information: ""Back to the Rough Ground!""

Wittgenstein, Language and Information: ""Back to the...

Author: David Blair
ISBN: 9789048170456
Format: Paperback
$448.77

an extended discussion of the re- vance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information...  Read More >>

Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture: A Non-Adaptationist, Systems Theoretical Approach

Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture: A Non-Adaptationist,...

Author: Nathalie Gontier ,  Jean Paul van Bendegem
ISBN: 9789048168521
Format: Paperback
$580.77

For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological...  Read More >>

Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language

Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language...

Author: Milan Rezac
ISBN: 9789048196975
Format: Hardback
$366.96

This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of ""uninterpretable"" phi-features:...  Read More >>

Language Documentation: Practice and values

Language Documentation: Practice and values

Author: Lenore A. Grenoble (University of Chicago) ,  N. Louanna Furbee (University of Missouri, Columbia)
ISBN: 9789027212016
Format: Paperback
$77.63

Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which...  Read More >>

Language Documentation: Practice and values

Language Documentation: Practice and values

Author: Lenore A. Grenoble (University of Chicago) ,  N. Louanna Furbee (University of Missouri, Columbia)
ISBN: 9789027211750
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics....  Read More >>

Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or...

Author: Shouhui Zhao ,  Richard B. Jr. Baldauf
ISBN: 9781441943064
Format: Paperback
$419.76

One of the remarkable things about Chinese language policy over the millennia has been the power of the writing...  Read More >>

Dynamic Assessment: A Vygotskian Approach to Understanding and Promoting L2 Development

Dynamic Assessment: A Vygotskian Approach to Understanding...

Author: Matthew E. Poehner
ISBN: 9781441945426
Format: Paperback
$419.76

Dynamic Assessment (DA) re conceptualizes classroom interactions by arguing that teaching and assessment should...  Read More >>

Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture: Crossing Bridges

Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture: Crossing...

Author: Jürgen Backhaus
ISBN: 9781441944610
Format: Paperback
$314.16

While certain topics have been fully researched to the point where the marginal benefit from further research is...  Read More >>

Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes: Issues and Prospects

Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes:...

Author: Elisabet Arnó Macià ,  Antonia Soler Cervera
ISBN: 9781441939470
Format: Paperback
$419.76

I immediately recognized that the Internet would radically transform second language teaching and learning, and...  Read More >>

The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in Two Languages

The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in...

Author: Rafael Art Javier
ISBN: 9781441940414
Format: Paperback
$261.36

As bilingual individuals enter the educational system and the clinical landscape, they struggle with intricate,...  Read More >>

The Influence of Aural Training in Music on the Perceptive Performance of Adult Learners’ Sound-Discrimination Abilities in an Unknown Foreign Language

The Influence of Aural Training in Music on the Perceptive...

Author: Friederike Köster geb. Flottmann
ISBN: 9783631613535
Format: Paperback
$116.70

Can aural training in music enhance your sound-discrimination abilities for languages? This study sets off to answer...  Read More >>

Inductive Dependency Parsing

Inductive Dependency Parsing

Author: Joakim Nivre
ISBN: 9789048172184
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Describes the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis...  Read More >>

Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

Author: Laila Dybkjær ,  Wolfgang Minker
ISBN: 9789048177349
Format: Paperback
$578.16

Issues discussed include, for example, discourse and dialogue modelling in research versus industrial spoken dialogue...  Read More >>

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