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  • Language, Science, and Structure

    A Journey into the Philosophy of Linguistics

    by Ryan M. Nefdt ...
    What is a language? What do scientific grammars tell us about the structure of individual languages and human language in general? What kind of science is linguistics? These and other questions are the subject of Ryan M. Nefdt's Language, Science, and Structure. Linguistics presents a unique and challenging subject matter for the philosophy of science. As a special science, its formalisation and ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics

    A Contemporary Outlook

    by Ryan M. Nefdt ...
    What is the remit of theoretical linguistics? How are human languages different from animal calls or artificial languages? What philosophical insights about language can be gleaned from phonology, pragmatics, probabilistic linguistics, and deep learning? This book addresses the current philosophical issues at the heart of theoretical linguistics, which are widely debated not only by linguists, but ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • The Philosophy of Linguistics

    by Ryan M. Nefdt ...
    Series series Elements in the Philosophy of Science
    The philosophy of linguistics reflects on multiple scientific disciplines aimed at the understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence, our ability to produce and understand natural language. Linguistics, viewed as a science, has a long history but it was the advent of the formal (and computational) revolution in cognitive science that established the field as both ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Linguistic Relativity

    An Essential Guide to Past Debates and Future Prospects

    by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Ryan M. Nefdt ...
    The concept of linguistic relativity (or Whorfianism) has its roots in the linguistic anthropology of Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf in the early twentieth century. However, questions over the relationship between natural language and human cognition go much further and deeper. Unfortunately, linguistic relativity has about as many misinterpretations as it does labels (linguistic ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Philosophy and Science of Language

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Ryan M. Nefdt, Carita Klippi, Bart Karstens ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language. Linguistics throughout history has been a conduit to the study of the mind, brain, societal structure, literature and history itself. The epistemic and methodological transfer between the sciences and humanities in regards to linguistics has often ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics

    Edited by Ryan M. Nefdt, Gabe Dupre, Kate Hazel Stanton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook presents cutting edge articles on the present state-of-the-art in the philosophy of linguistics. It features prominent linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists investigating foundational issues across subdisciplines of linguistics, cognitive science, and computational approaches to the study of language. In addition to providing a broad overview of the field, it offers novel ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics

    Edited by Keith Allan, Kasia M. Jaszczolt ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Linguistics

    by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods, Ruth Kempson, Tim Fernando, Nicholas Asher ...
    Series series Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of linguistics ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out both the foundational assumptions set during the second half of the last century and the ... Read more

    $211.49 USD

  • Corpus Linguistics

    Method, Theory and Practice

    by Tony McEnery, Andrew Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the discipline of corpus linguistics developed and surveys the major approaches to the use of corpus data. It uses a broad range of examples to show how ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Formal Languages in Logic

    A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis

    by Catarina Dutilh Novaes ...
    Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Instruction of Imagination

    Language as a Social Communication Technology

    by Dr. Daniel Dor ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Interaction
    The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the biological world ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality

    Edited by Markus Werning, Wolfram Hinzen, Edouard Machery ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts. Understanding how compositionality works is a central element of syntactic and semantic analysis and a challenge for models of cognition. It is a key concept in linguistics and philosophy and in the cognitive sciences more ... Read more

    $154.79 USD