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31 produkter
The Interaction Engine
Language in Social Life and Human Evolution
Inbunden, 2025
450 kr
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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 …
Politeness
Some Universals in Language Usage
Av Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson
Häftad, 1987
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
854 kr
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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 …
Language, Thought, and Reality, second edition
Av Benjamin Lee Whorf, Penny Lee m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
546 kr
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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 …
Presumptive Meanings
The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature
Häftad, 2000
1204 kr
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Space in Language and Cognition
Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Häftad, 2003
905 kr
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Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about …
Pragmatics
Häftad, 1983
791 kr
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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, …
Rethinking Linguistic Relativity
Av John J. Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson
Häftad, 1996
1022 kr
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Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and changes in theoretical climate. Parts I and II …
Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development
Av Melissa Bowerman, Stephen C. Levinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
1022 kr
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Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evolving fields of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development. At first sight, advances in the two …
Grammars of Space
Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Av Stephen C. Levinson, David P. Wilkins
Häftad, 2006
871 kr
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Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In this collection, a team of leading scholars review the spatial domain across a wide variety of languages. …
Space in Language and Cognition
Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Inbunden, 2003
2146 kr
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Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about …
Grammars of Space
Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Av Stephen C. Levinson, David P. Wilkins
Inbunden, 2006
2482 kr
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Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In this collection, a team of leading scholars review the spatial domain across a wide variety of languages. …
Roots of Human Sociality
Culture, Cognition and Interaction
Av Nicholas J. Enfield, Stephen C. Levinson
E-bok, 2020
741 kr
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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 …
Roots of Human Sociality
Culture, Cognition and Interaction
Av Nicholas J. Enfield, Stephen C. Levinson
E-bok, 2020
741 kr
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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 …
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
Known Unknowns
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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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 …
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
Known Unknowns
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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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 …
Politeness
Some Universals in Language Usage
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown
E-bok, 1987
840 kr
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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 …
Politeness
Some Universals in Language Usage
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown
E-bok, 1987
840 kr
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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 …
Pragmatics
E-bok, 1983
927 kr
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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, …
Pragmatics
E-bok, 1983
957 kr
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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, …
Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Sarah Cutfield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2046 kr
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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 …
Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Sarah Cutfield m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
687 kr
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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 …
Roots of Human Sociality
Culture, Cognition and Interaction
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Nicholas J. Enfield
Inbunden, 2006
2450 kr
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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 …
Roots of Human Sociality
Culture, Cognition and Interaction
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Nicholas J. Enfield
Häftad, 2006
632 kr
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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 …
Grammar of Yélî Dnye
The Papuan Language of Rossel Island
Inbunden, 2022
2096 kr
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This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with …
Grammar of Yélî Dnye
The Papuan Language of Rossel Island
Häftad, 2023
403 kr
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This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with …
Language, Thought, and Reality
Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Av Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
386 kr
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