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  • The Dark Matter of Pragmatics

    Known Unknowns

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Elements in Pragmatics
    This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. We can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed of speech encoding: pragmatics occupies the niche nestled between slow speech encoding and fast comprehension. Pragmatic strategies are tricks for evading this tight encoding bottleneck by meaning ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Politeness

    Some Universals in Language Usage

    by Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Interaction Engine

    Language in Social Life and Human Evolution

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Communicative interaction forms the core of human experience. In this fascinating book Levinson, one of the world's leading scholars in the field, explores how human communicative interaction is structured, the demands it puts on our cognitive processing, and how its system evolved out of continuities with other primate systems. It celebrates the role of the 'interaction engine' which drives our ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • Roots of Human Sociality

    Culture, Cognition and Interaction

    Edited by Stephen C. Levinson, Nicholas J. Enfield ...
    Series series Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
    This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roots of Human Sociality attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction viewed from across many disciplines, and examines their origins in infant development and in human ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Language, Thought, and Reality, second edition

    Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

    by Benjamin Lee Whorf ...
    Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the "Yale Report."The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

    Edited by Sarah Cutfield, Stephen C. Levinson, Michael J. Dunn, N. J. Enfield, Sérgio Meira ...
    Series Book 14 - Language Culture and Cognition
    Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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    by Suzanne Collins ...
    Series Book 2 - The Hunger Games
    The second book in Suzanne Collins's phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How Things Shape the Mind

    A Theory of Material Engagement

    by Lambros Malafouris ...
    An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in the head.” This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Transitions in Mathematics Education

    by Ghislaine Gueudet, Marianna Bosch, Andrea A. diSessa, Oh Nam Kwon, Lieven Verschaffel ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the kinds of transitions that have been studied in mathematics education research. It defines transition as a process of change, and describes learning in an educational context as a transition process. The book focuses on research in the area of mathematics education, and starts out with a literature review, describing the epistemological, cognitive, institutional and ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Animal Minds

    Edited by Robert W. Lurz ...
    This volume is a collection of fourteen essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of animal minds has been a topic of interest to philosophers since the origins of philosophy, and recent years have seen significant philosophical engagement with the subject. However, there is no volume that represents the current state ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Linguistics and Evolution

    A Developmental Approach

    by Julie Tetel Andresen ...
    Evolutionary linguistics - an approach to language study that takes into account our origins and development as a species - has rapidly developed in recent years. Informed by the latest findings in evolutionary theory, this book sets language within the context of human biology and development, taking ideas from fields such as psychology, neurology, biology, anthropology, genetics and cognitive ... Read more

    $40.99 USD