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Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xxv, 106 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts.
-So it is not a textbook.
-Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it.
The book deals with the problems of philosophy, and shows, I believe, that the reason why these problems are posed is that the logic of our language is mis-understood. The whole sense...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged.) ; col. ill. : 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose. Words. Selig collects them, ones that stir his heart (Mama!) and ones that make him laugh (giggle). But what to do with so many luscious words? After helping a poet find the perfect words for his poem (lozenge, lemon, and licorice), he figures it out: His purpose is to spread the word to others. And so he begins to sprinkle,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 357 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The search for the origin of human language has finally come of age. For centuries, progress in Ur-language research was slow and spasmodic; many scientists came to believe that there was no definitive way to answer its central questions. Then, in the past 20 years, everything changed. Linguist Kenneally shows how linguists, cognitive scientists, animal researchers, biologists, and geneticists have all contributed valuable new insights into language...
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
©1965
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
491 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the many aspects of world languages, such as the history of language, the constituent elements, the social function of language, all about today's modern languages, and the possibility of an international language.
6) Gibberish
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sound like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Childrenʼs Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emphasizes that many different languages are spoken in different parts of the world, giving examples from French and German to Arabic and Spanish.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 167 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of lectures by the "founder of modern linguistics" discusses fifty years of scientific development in the study of language as he expounds and criticizes a variety of theories. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how linguistic patterns of a language provide insight into the country of origin, showing the importance and mutability of nouns, verbs, numbers, and modifiers and providing humorous anecdotes from the author's own attempt to speak in foreign tongues.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1952]
Physical Desc
160 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC is the classic work of philosophy by Alfred Jules Ayer published in 1936 when Ayer was 26 (though it was in fact completed by age 25). This book defines, explains, and argues for the verification principle of logical positivism, as it relates to the use of objectives and methods in determining truths and probabilities. And whether or not one agrees that emperical evidence is the only basis for proof, there is no denying that...
12) Real presences
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Distinguished essayist and literary critic George Steiner explores the power and presence of the unseen in art There is a philosophical school of thought that believes the presence of God in art, literature, and music-in creativity in general-is a vacant metaphor, an eroded figure of speech, a ghost in humanity's common parlance. George Steiner posits the opposite-that any coherent understanding of language and art, any capacity to communicate meaning...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on the move. Throughout history, for every mutation, idiosyncrasy, and ubiquitous mistake, there have been countervailing rules, pronouncements and systems making some attempt to bring language to heel. From the utopian language-builder to the stereotypical grammatical stickler to the programmer trying to teach a computer to translate, Lane Greene takes...
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