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Author: Ernst Cassirer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-06-07
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0486122271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this important study, Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. Includes studies of the metaphysics of the Bhagavat Gita, Ancient Egyptian religion, symbolic logic, and more.
Author: Laurie Bauer
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1998-11-26
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0141939109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; America is Ruining the English Language. The tone is lively and entertaining throughout and there are cartoons from Doonesbury andThe Wizard of Id to illustrate some of the points. The book should have a wide readership not only amongst students who want to read leading linguists writing about popular misconceptions but also amongst the large number of people who enjoy reading about language in general.
Author: Vyvyan Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1107043964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on cutting-edge research, Evans presents an alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work.
Author: Albert Cook
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Alexiou
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780801433016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient, medieval, and modern Greek cultures. In her new, eagerly awaited book, Alexiou looks at how language defines the contours of myth and metaphor. Drawing on texts from the New Testament to the present day, Alexiou shows the diversity of the Greek language and its impact at crucial stages of its history on people who were not Greek. She then stipulates the relatedness of literary and "folk" genres, and assesses the importance of rituals and metaphors of the life cycle in shaping narrative forms and systems of imagery.Alexiou places special emphasis on Byzantine literary texts of the sixth and twelfth centuries, providing her own translations where necessary; modern poetry and prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and narrative songs and tales in the folk tradition, which she analyzes alongside songs of the life cycle. She devotes particular attention to two genres whose significance she thinks has been much underrated: the tales (paramythia) and the songs of love and marriage.In exploring the relationship between speech and ritual, Alexiou not only takes the Greek language into account but also invokes the neurological disorder of autism, drawing on clinical studies and her own experience as the mother of autistic identical twin sons.
Author: William Schultz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1135628815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a detailed overview of the approach by two of the leading philosophical theorists of myth.
Author: Steven Brown
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0472034987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume was conceived as a first book in SLA for advanced undergraduate or introductory master’s courses that include education majors, foreign language education majors, and English majors. It’s also an excellent resource for practicing teachers. Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in the field of second language acquisition. It is not the goal of this book to address every SLA theory or teach research methodology. It does however address the myths and questions that non-specialist teacher candidates have about language learning. Steven Brown is the co-author of the introductory applied linguistics textbook Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation textbook (and workbook). The myths challenged in this book are: § Children learn languages quickly and easily while adults are ineffective in comparison. § A true bilingual is someone who speaks two languages perfectly. § You can acquire a language simply through listening or reading. § Practice makes perfect. § Language students learn (and retain) what they are taught. § Language learners always benefit from correction. § Individual differences are a major, perhaps the major, factor in SLA. § Language acquisition is the individual acquisition of grammar.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Hau
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780990505068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce upon a time, anthropology had something to offer philosophy. It was a time when Continential thinkers drew on anthropology's theoretical terms—mana, taboo, potlatch—in order to reflect on the limits of human belief and imagination. Among these philosophic dialogues with anthropology, we find Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on Sir James Frazer's magnum opus, The Golden Bough. Now, Hau Books brings you the first translation by an anthropology—Stephan Palmié—of this masterpiece. Wittgenstein's remarks on ritual, magic, religion, belief, ceremony, and Frazer's own logical presuppositions are as lucid and thought-provoking now as they were over half-a-century ago. Anthropologists find themselves repeating many of Wittgenstein's same questions and confronting similar doubts today: Is metaphysics a kind of magic? What do we call “ritual”? Are humans simply “ceremonial animals”? This book is not only a fresh translation, but a fresh set of engagements with Wittgenstein's ideas from some of the world's most brilliant anthropologists. Contributors include: David Graeber, Veena Das, Michael Lambek, Heonik Kwon, Carlo Severi, Michael Taussig, Wendy James, Giovanni da Col, and Michael Puett. Here is a unique and well-overdue discussion of the mythologies in our language. Taking interdisciplinarity seriously, this volume returns to the ethnographic imagination that made great thinkers like Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and indeed Ludwig Wittgenstein take heed—and returns the favor to the philosophical tradition that found wonder and pause for thought in the anthropological canon.
Author: Abby Kaplan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 110708492X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed look at language-related myths that explores both what we know and how we know it.
Author: Roy Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1136751459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of such codes to transfer messages from mind to mind.
