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  • How the Brain Evolved Language

    by Donald Loritz ...
    How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

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  • Unpopular Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A classic collection of Bertrand Russell’s more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell’s most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat… the growth in Dogmatism", on first publication in 1950 it met with critical acclaim and a wide readership and has since become one of his most accessible and popular books. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • I Am Not I

    by Jacob Needleman ...
    In this “striking” meditation on the relationship between the adult self and the inner child, Jacob Needleman presents excitingly “original positions” on age old spiritual and philosophical questions—Ken WilburSeeking to reconcile the split between our inner child and our adult self, eminent philosopher and religious scholar Jacob Needleman evokes the ancient spiritual tradition of a deep dialogue ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Figurative Language

    by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Theaetetus

    Translated by John McDowell ...
    by Lesley Brown, Plato ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of the key issues in philosophy: what is knowledge? Though no definite answer is reached, the discussion is penetrating and wide-ranging, covering the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies

    A Pragma-dialectical Perspective

    by Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst ...
    This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communicative perspective, and then discussing the fallacies that occur when certain rules of communication are violated, the authors offer an alternative to both the linguistically-inspired descriptive and logically-inspired normative approaches to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology

    by K. Brad Wray ...
    Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist or social constructionist. In this book, Brad Wray argues that Kuhn provides a useful framework for ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Complex Mind

    An Interdisciplinary Approach

    by David McFarland, Keith Stenning, Maggie McGonigle ...
    Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems and the cognitive products of language evolution. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Linguistic Structure in Language Processing

    Edited by G.N. Carlson, M.K. Tanenhaus ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The papers in this volume are intended to exemplify the state of experimental psycho linguistics in the middle to later 1980s. Our over riding impression is that the field has come a long way since the earlier work of the 1950s and 1960s, and that the field has emerged with a renewed strength from a difficult period in the 1970s. Not only are the theoretical issues more sharply defined and ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Between Saying and Doing : Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

    Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

    by Robert B. Brandom ...
    Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight bot ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Online Teaching and Learning

    Sociocultural Perspectives

    Series series Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching
    Online Teaching and Learning shows how learning through the internet depends on complex human interactions for success.The text uses sociocultural theory as its foundational stance to empirically examine the dynamics of these interactions. It seeks to understand meaning making in all of its social, linguistic and cultural complexity. Each chapter examines how it is that culturally and historically ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • L2 Interactional Competence and Development

    Edited by Prof. Joan Kelly Hall, John Hellermann, Simona Pekarek Doehler ...
    Series Book 56 - Second Language Acquisition
    Drawing on data from a range of contexts, including classrooms, pharmacy consultations, tutoring sessions, and video-game playing, and a range of languages including English, German, French, Danish and Icelandic, the studies in this volume address challenges suggested by these questions: What kinds of interactional resources do L2 users draw on to participate competently and creatively in their L2 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD