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  • Cognition, Culture, and the Arts

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrating, Understanding, and Reading

    Edited by Peter Hanenberg, Wolfgang Hallet ...
    Series Book 15 - passagem
    The aim of the volume is to show in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts can contribute to a better understanding of human cognition. The collection of essays is questioning whether culture is exclusively human and discusses evolutionary substrates of narrative and the interfaces between culture, stories and cognition. The contributions examine the cognitive strengths and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world.Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Music between Us

    Is Music a Universal Language?

    by Kathleen Marie Higgins ...
    "Higgins' love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended."— ChoiceFrom our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In this book, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    How Music Plays the Mind

    by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ...
    What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Translating as a Purposeful Activity

    Functionalist Approaches Explained

    by Christiane Nord ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    This bestselling text is a comprehensive overview of functionalist approaches to translation in English. Christiane Nord, one of the leading figures in translation studies, explains the complexities of theories and terms in simple language with numerous examples. Covering how the theories developed, illustrations of the main ideas, and specific applications to translator training, literary ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Multilingual Subject

    by Claire Kramsch ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    By drawing on multiple examples of real-world language learning situations, this book explores the subjective aspects of the language learning experience. ... Read more

    $66.39 USD

  • Language Attrition

    by Monika S. Schmid ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    'Language attrition' describes the loss of, or changes to, grammatical and other features of a language as a result of declining use by speakers who have changed their linguistic environment and language habits. In such a situation there may, for example, be simplification in the tense system or in certain properties of subordinate clauses; some vocabulary items might fall into disuse and phonetic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Foundations of Musical Grammar

    by Lawrence M. Zbikowski ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Music Theory
    In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Lawrence M. Zbikowski puts forward Foundations of Musical Grammar, an ambitious and broadly encompassing ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • In Defence of the Human Being

    Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology

    by Thomas Fuchs ...
    With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines”, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • The Bilingual Mind

    And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought

    by Aneta Pavlenko ...
    If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as 'unusual' or ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Rediscovering Interlanguage

    by Larry Selinker, William E. Rutherford ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology. ... Read more

    $102.99 USD