Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics – serie
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21 produkter
Minimalist View on the Syntax–Semantics Relationship
Turning the Mind into a Snowflake
Av Jaroslaw Jakielaszek, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2017
565 kr
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Current developments of the Minimalist Program in generative linguistics put the procedure of labeling syntactic objects at the center of the syntax–semantics transition. This book provides a discussion of consequences of such proposals for a proper analysis of different varieties of the operation …
Evidence, Experiment and Argument in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
Inbunden, 2016
807 kr
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This volume is concerned with issues in experimental philosophy and experimental linguistics. Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, it asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. There is particular focus on the status of linguistic intuitions and …
Reference of Natural Kind Terms
Inbunden, 2016
871 kr
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This book deals with the main proponents of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two main types of contemporary reference theories on natural kind terms are the causal and the descriptivist theories. The author analyzes the main versions of these two types of …
Philosophical and Linguistic Analyses of Reference
Inbunden, 2016
788 kr
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Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument …
Philosophical Approaches to Proper Names
Av Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Luis Fernández Moreno
Inbunden, 2016
714 kr
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The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches to proper names. The issues discussed include abstract names, empty names, naming and name-using practices, definite descriptions, individuals, reference, designation, sense and semantics. The contributions show the importance and …
Philosophy and Logic of Predication
Inbunden, 2016
899 kr
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This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication. The contributions discuss …
From Philosophy of Fiction to Cognitive Poetics
Inbunden, 2016
954 kr
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Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also present different approaches to translation …
Translating Translation
Walter Benjamin on the Way to Language
Av Veronica O'Neill, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2018
704 kr
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What is it about Walter Benjamin’s «Task of the Translator»? As it is clearly seminal to Translation Studies, why is it rarely taken seriously? This book re-examines Benjamin’s text in a broader context and sheds light on this question, so revealing its true potential for Translation Studies and …
Symmetry Breaking and Symmetry Restoration
Evidence from English Syntax of Coordination
Av Szymon J. Napierała, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2017
751 kr
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This book treats the faculty of language as part of the Universe subject to physical laws. It presents phenomena from syntax and semantics in the interdisciplinary context. The author analyses the origin of syntax and semantics as autonomous modules (asymmetry), even though they display …
Understanding Predication
Inbunden, 2017
774 kr
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This book investigates the linguistic status of predication, especially within the generative paradigm. The topics discussed include minimalist accounts of predication, types of predication, copular constructions, topic and focus, theticity and transitivity. The contributions analyze constructions …
“The Same, but Different”. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Variantivity
Av Aleksandra Majdzinska, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2018
725 kr
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This study focuses on the concepts of similarities and differences considered within the framework of cognitive linguistics and its understanding of mental construal as our ability to form alternate conceptualisations. The author employs selected cognitive models in the analysis of a variety of …
Objects of Inquiry in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Inbunden, 2018
689 kr
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This book investigates possible common objects of inquiry in philosophy of language and literature. The topics discussed include proper names (analyzed from different theoretical perspectives), fictional names, truth in fiction, ontological status and metaphysics of fictional characters, metaphor, …
Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language
Av Kacper Bartczak, Jakub Mácha
Inbunden, 2018
770 kr
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This book is devoted to investigating the relationships and correspondences that hold between the poetry of Wallace Stevens and philosophy. Stevens used the aesthetically enhanced language of his poems to create inquiries into the nature of reality that parallel those conducted by philosophers. He …
Metaphor and Senses
The Synamet Corpus: A Polish Resource for Synesthetic Metaphors
Av Magdalena Zawisławska, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2019
814 kr
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The book deals with the synesthetic metaphors in Synamet – a semantically and grammatically annotated corpus. The texts included in the corpus are excerpted from blogs devoted to, among others, perfume, wine, beer, music, art, massage and wellness. The thesis presents a Conceptual Metaphor Theory …
Diminutive Constructions in English
Av Dorota Gorzycka, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2020
792 kr
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Diminutive constructions in English provides an analysis of form and meaning of English diminutives with selected suffixes and suffix combinations: -let, -ling, -ette, -er+ -s, -kin + -s, and -ie+ -kin +-s. The empirical study is done within the framework of Construction Grammar, Construction …
Hermeneutics of Translation
A Translator’s Competence and the Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Av Beata Piecychna, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2021
767 kr
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This is the first monograph to examine the notion of a translator’s competence from the perspective of Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics, an aspect not yet given rigorous critical attention either by translatologists or philosophers. The study’s main objective is to not only depict different …
Harmony Effects Across Language and Perception
Some Conundrums around the Unity of the Mind
Av Gaetano Fiorin, Denis Delfitto m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
623 kr
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This book offers original insights around a fascinating idea: Perception and the rest of cognition, crucially including language, are closer to each other than the Cartesian tradition dared to dream. By combining recent results in cognitive neuroscience, the philosophy of perception, and the syntax …
Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication
Volume 1
Av Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Martin Hinton
Inbunden, 2022
605 kr
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This two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contributions illustrate how these strands of research are interconnected and show the importance of such a broad outlook. The aim is to throw light upon some of the key questions in …
Interactive and Interpersonal Meanings of Grammatical Structures
A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Selected Direct Directive Constructions in Polish
Av Agata Kochańska, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2022
618 kr
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The study offers an analysis of three grammatical constructions specifically employed in direct performance of directive speech acts in Polish. Constructions of this type have not yet been widely analyzed, as research pertaining to the relation between the grammatical structure of an utterance and …
Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication
Volume 2
Av Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Martin Hinton
Inbunden, 2022
729 kr
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This two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contributions illustrate how these strands of research are interconnected and show the importance of such a broad outlook. The aim is to throw light upon some of the key questions in …
Metasemantics and Possible Expressions
Av Kamil Lemanek, Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Inbunden, 2024
556 kr
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Foundational theories of meaning, and the broader metasemantic projects they contribute to, promise to answer the seemingly simple yet intractable question of what meaning consists in and where it comes from. Naturally, they build upon expressions that we already know and recognize to develop their …
