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  • The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Performativity

    Edited by Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume focuses on the hypothesis that performativity is not a property confined to certain specific human skills, or to certain specific acts of language, nor an accidental enrichment due to creative intelligence. Instead, the executive and motor component of cognitive behavior should be considered an intrinsic part of the physiological functioning of the mind, and as endowed with self ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages

    Edited by Alessandro Capone, Manuel García-Carpintero, Alessandra Falzone ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributors include philosophers, theoretical linguists, socio-pragmaticians, and cognitive scientists. The book is divided into four sections following the provenance of the authors. Combining the voices from leading and emerging authors in the field, it offers a detailed picture of indirect ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Darwinian Biolinguistics

    Theory and History of a Naturalistic Philosophy of Language and Pragmatics

    by Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the corporeal structures of Homo sapiens. The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic Model (CBM) and the Darwinian Biolinguistic Model (DBM). The ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives

    Edited by Pierre Larrivée, Chungmin Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity*,* focusing onhow negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation**. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume. Leading specialists in the field present novel ideas by employing various ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes

    Understanding the Information Taken for Granted

    by Filippo Domaneschi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language comprehension are complex and demanding cognitive processes. The author demonstrates that these processes exist not only at the explicit ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

    Edited by Yan Huang ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited

    The Case of Conditionals

    by Magdalena Sztencel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion. Focusing on conditionals, the book defends a wholly pragmatic, wholly inferential account of meaning – one which foregrounds a reasoning subject’s individual state of mind. The topics discussed in the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions

    Edited by Salvatore Pistoia-Reda, Filippo Domaneschi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature. It provides original discussions of specific formal aspects of the theoretical reconstruction of these phenomena. The authors offer innovative experimental analyses in which crucial processing questions are addressed, and new experimental methodologies ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion

    by Prakash Mondal ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion. The author presents a compelling case for the view that there exist, contrary to popular belief, logical universals at the intersection of language and emotive content. This book shows that emotive structures in the mind that are ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Grammar, Philosophy, and Logic

    by Bruce Silver ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences that even the finest writers can fail to notice; concentrating on subtle missteps and errors that can make the difference between good and excellent prose. Each chapter ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

    by Richard Breheny ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD