290 products for "Language books"

This volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities in Europe, considering the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity

The contributions to this volume by a team of international experts illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and

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

Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language

This work aims to be a synthesis of mathematical learning theory, natural selection and Universal Grammar in a form that is both readable and convincing. In the process it also illuminates many

This work aims to be a synthesis of mathematical learning theory, natural selection and Universal Grammar in a form that is both readable and convincing. In the process it also illuminates many

Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony and jokes. The author presents a comprehensive

Wars of Words is the first comprehensive survey of the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Challenging received notions, Tony Crowley presents a complex, fascinating, and often

In an age of information glut, knowledge can be hard to come by. Full citizenship of the world requires that we learn to reason and communicate. So how do we do it?

Drawing on formal linguistic theory (the Minimalist Program, Dependency Grammars, grammaticalization), cognitive psychology (Skill Learning) and computational linguistics (Zipf curves), and Complexity Theory, this work takes the view that syntactic development is

Hawlin and Burnett present the final volume in this three volume edition of Browning's great murder-story, "The Ring and the Book". Browning concludes his poem with the monologues of Pope Innocent XII