Philosophy of language books

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Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness...

Author: Marjorie Perloff
ISBN: 9780226660608
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a...  Read More >>

Some Questions About Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects

Some Questions About Language: A Theory of Human Discourse...

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
ISBN: 9780812691788
Format: Paperback
$60.59

"Arguing that the syntactical and ""ordinary language"" approaches have not satisfactorily treated fundamental questions...  Read More >>

Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Author: Harry van der Hulst
ISBN: 9783110157505
Format: Hardback
$908.16

No detailed description available for ""Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe"".  Read More >>

Standardisierung und Purismus bei Joachim Heinrich Campe

Standardisierung und Purismus bei Joachim Heinrich Campe...

Author: Sibylle Orgeldinger
ISBN: 9783110163124
Format: Hardback
$308.79

Joachim Heinrich Campe, an educationalist of the Enlightenment, was also committed to language education. His view...  Read More >>

Function, Selection and Innateness

Function, Selection and Innateness

Author: Simon Kirby
ISBN: 9780198238126
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Why are all languages alike in some ways, different in others? Why do languages change? How did they originate and...  Read More >>

Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing; Second Edition

Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing;...

Author: Michael Heim ,  David Gelernter
ISBN: 9780300077469
Format: Paperback
$89.76

In this book Michael Heim provides the first consistent philosophical basis for critically evaluating the impact...  Read More >>

Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals

Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of...

Author: Simon Kirby (Research Fellow in the Language, Evolution, and Computation Research Unit, Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198238119
Format: Hardback
$231.95

Why are all languages alike in some ways, different in others? Why do languages change? How did they originate and...  Read More >>

Sprachreflexion der deutschen Frühromantik: Konzepte zwischen Universalpoesie und Grammatischen Kosmopolitismus. Mit lexikographischem Anhang

Sprachreflexion der deutschen Frühromantik: Konzepte...

Author: Jochen A. Bär
ISBN: 9783110163728
Format: Hardback
$325.95

Early Romantic language theory is a specific amalgam of poetics, transcendental philosophy, hermeneutics and philology....  Read More >>

Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge

Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge

Author: Ursula M. Zeglen
ISBN: 9780415189040
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer, Volume 21

The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer, Volume 21

Author: Lewis Edwin Hahn ,  A. J. Ayer
ISBN: 9780812691733
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This, the 21st volume in the ""Library of Living Philosophers"", consists of 24 papers by major figures in philosophy,...  Read More >>

Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language

Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language...

Author: Sydney M. Lamb (Rice University)
ISBN: 9789027236777
Format: Paperback
$147.49

A study of the relationship between language and thought, in order to guage how much of what we think we know comes...  Read More >>

Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language

Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language...

Author: Sydney M. Lamb (Rice University)
ISBN: 9789027236753
Format: Hardback
$282.04

Pathways of the Brain uses a top-down modeling strategy, to chart relationships among words and other products of...  Read More >>

Metaphysics in Ordinary Language

Metaphysics in Ordinary Language

Author: Stanley Rosen
ISBN: 9780300074789
Format: Hardback
$103.95

In this collection of philosophical writings Stanley Rosen addresses a wide range of topics - from eros, poetry...  Read More >>

Handlung, Interpretation, Kritik: Grundzüge Einer Textwissenschaftlichen Handlungs- Und Kulturpsychologie

Handlung, Interpretation, Kritik: Grundzüge Einer Textwissenschaftlichen...

Author: Jürgen Straub
ISBN: 9783110163209
Format: Hardback
$312.31

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Handlung, Interpretation, Kritik"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Language and Thought: A rational enquiry into their nature and relationship

Language and Thought: A rational enquiry into their...

Author: Amorey Gethin
ISBN: 9781871516722
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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Understanding Truth

Understanding Truth

Author: Scott Soames (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, USA)
ISBN: 9780195123357
Format: Paperback
$84.95

Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in ordinary thought and scientific theories. The questions...  Read More >>

Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle

Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of...

Author: Christopher Shields (, University of Colorado, Boulder)
ISBN: 9780198237150
Format: Hardback
$209.95

Presents a full study of a key feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations: his concern with...  Read More >>

The Language of History and the History of Language

The Language of History and the History of Language...

Author: R. J. W. Evans
ISBN: 9780199513871
Format: Paperback
$23.95

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Vagueness: A Reader

Vagueness: A Reader

Author: Rosanna Kenney ,  Peter Smith
ISBN: 9780262611459
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Three Arguments against Whole Language & Why They are Wrong

Three Arguments against Whole Language & Why They are...

Author: Stephen D. Krashen (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9780325001197
Format: Paperback
$49.50

Written by one of America's most respected authorities on language and literacy, this text offers analyses of the...  Read More >>

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature: Volume 16

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature: Volume 16...

Author: Craig Kallendorf
ISBN: 9781880393260
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This selection of essays is arranged chronologically and designed to illustrate the close connections between the...  Read More >>

Writing on the Plaza: Mediated Literacy Practice Among Scribes and Clients in Mexico City

Writing on the Plaza: Mediated Literacy Practice Among...

Author: Judy Kalman
ISBN: 9781572731547
Format: Paperback
$34.00

Mediated literacy practice among scribes and clients in Mexico city.  Read More >>

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