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  • How We Talk

    The Inner Workings of Conversation

    de N. J. Enfield ...
    An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal wordWe all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language.Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • What Is Truth For?

    de N.J. Enfield ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    Truth is for striving at, for the sake of good collective action.With new media technologies, it seems that falsehoods can spread faster and further than ever. And with new norms of public discourse, while being caught in a lie would once end a politician’s career, today it is shrugged off, which has profound implications for democracy. Does the truth no longer matter?This optimist’s guide to ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Language vs. Reality

    Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

    de N.J. Enfield ...
    A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention.Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Consequences of Language

    From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity

    de N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell ...
    What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us?Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell ask ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

    de N. J. Enfield ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Surveys
    Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and core systems and subsystems of the languages of this fascinating region. Drawing on his depth of expertise in mainland Southeast Asia, Enfield includes more than a thousand data examples from over a hundred languages ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Concept of Action

    de N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it is a spurious concept of action. In interaction, a person's primary task is to decide how to respond, not to label what someone just did. The ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Linguistic Epidemiology

    Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

    de N.J. Enfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
    This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Mainland Southeast Asian Languages

    A Concise Typological Introduction

    de N. J. Enfield ...
    This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystems of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, applying the main concepts of language typology, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language variation, and language contact, to this diverse language area. Written by a leading expert in the languages of this region, N. J. Enfield draws upon nearly a thousand ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

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  • Politeness

    Some Universals in Language Usage

    de Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series Libro 4 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    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 social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for ... Leer más

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  • Pragmatics

    de Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    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, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Leer más

    $78.99 USD

  • Thought

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Tim Bayne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    There is no denying that thinking comes naturally to human beings. But what are thoughts? How is thought realized in the brain? Does thinking occur in public or is it a purely private affair? Do young children and non-human animals think? Is human thought the same everywhere, or are there culturally specific modes of thought? What is the relationship between thought and language? What kind of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Understanding Pragmatics

    de Gunter Senft ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, social and interpersonal contexts, as well as to culture specific conventions and the speech events in which they are embedded. From a cross-linguistic and cross ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD