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Plato's cratylus the comedy of language by shanemontgomery ewegen (hardback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Publisher: koros press the elements of language teaching contributors/editors: wei zhao, et alcom/language-linguistics-literature/-the_elements_of_language_teachingdate: price: ÂŁ http://www
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Constructing a language offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisitionall theories of language acquisition assume these fundamental skills of intention-reading and pattern-findingoxfam bookshop preston in this groundbreaking book, michael tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisitiontomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intentiongrammar emerges as the speakers of a language create linguistic constructions out of recurring sequences of symbols; children pick up these patterns in the buzz of words they hear around themdrawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn languagesome formal linguistic theories posit a second set of acquisition processes to connect somehow with an innate universal grammarsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut these extra processes, tomasello argues, are completely unnecessary-important to save a theory but not to explain the phenomenontheir linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilitiesfor all its empirical weaknesses, chomskian generative grammar has ruled the linguistic world for forty years
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Research on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decadesits five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution; the prehistory of language; the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and changeinterdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in the evolution of human andanimal communication more generallyoxfam bookshop preston in the oxford handbook of language evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the fieldthe oxford handbook of language evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive sciencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit highlights the links between different lines of research, shows what has been achieved, and considers promising directions for the futurethis book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved
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The horse, the wheel, and language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original indo-european speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilizationthe horse, the wheel, and language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the indo-european languages and english--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the pasthe explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social changebut who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even nazis seeking the roots of the aryan racesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lichfield roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as proto-indo-europeanlinking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, david anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of proto-indo-european, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchangeanthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morethey demonstrate how sometimes explicitly, but generally implicitly, the coens draw on thinkers such as homer, plato, dante, and hegel, while simultaneously presenting popular entertainmentin those works, they discover insightful engagements with such ideas as questions of human freedom, the relationship of reason to religion, and the nature of liberal democracy in the american regimesara macdonald and barry craig demonstrate that their comedies, in particular, which are often dismissed as mere entertainments, actually present substantial philosophic and political argumentsoxfam bookshop byres road both critically and commercially successful filmmakers, the coen brothers have written, produced, and directed numerous acclaimed films over the past three decadesthey examine five of the coen brothers' comedies: raising arizona, fargo, the big lebowski, o brother, where art thou, and hail caesar!
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This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of twentieth century english literature, literary theory and women's studiesoxfam bookshop chelmsford in this investigation of virginia woolf's narrative strategies daniel ferrer shows how her writing insistently raises the question of its origins and its connection with madness and suicidesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This item is available for cash on collection or p&p ÂŁ250 overseas box 7 read morethis book tells of the development of human speach, esp
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Cuba since the revolution ofauthor: samuel farberlanguage: this book should contain text in engpublication datepublisher: haymarket books
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The structures of language are shown to be purely cultural creationssince chomsky revolutionized the study of language in the s, it has increasingly come to be accepted that language and other knowledge structures are hard-wired in our genesoxfam bookshop preston when it was first published in , geoffrey sampson's educating eve was described as the definitive response to steven pinker's the language instinct and noam chomsky's nativismwith a new chapter entitled 'how people really speak' which uses corpus data to analyse how language is used in spontaneous english conversation, responses to critics, extensive revisions throughout, and a new preface by paul postal of new york university, this new edition will be an essential purchase for students, academics, and general readers interested in the debate about the 'language instinct'but people do not realize how thin the evidence for that idea issee oxfam website for delivery information read moreaccording to this view, human beings are born with a rich structure of cognition already in placethe 'language instinct' debate examines the various arguments for instinctive knowledge, and finds that each one rests on false premisses or embodies logical fallaciesin this revised and expanded new edition, sampson revisits his original arguments in the light of fresh evidence that has emerged since the original publication
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Marie mcginn's principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative interpretative line, which rejects the idea, central to the metaphysical reading, that wittgenstein sets out to ground the logic of our language in features of an independently constituted reality, but which allows that he aims to provide positive philosophical insights into how language functionsby this account, the aim of the work is to elucidate what language itself makes clear, namely, what is essential to its capacity to express thoughts that are true or falsemcginn takes as a guiding principle the idea that we should see wittgenstein's early work as an attempt to eschew philosophical theory and to allow language itself to reveal how it functionshowever, the early wittgenstein undertakes this descriptive project in the grip of a set of preconceptions concerning the essence of language that determine both how he conceives the problem and the approach he takes to the task of clarificationoxfam bookshop hampstead elucidating the tractatus: wittgenstein's early philosophy of language and logic discussion of wittgenstein's tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of diamond and conantnevertheless, the tractatus contains philosophical insights, achieved despite his early preconceptions, that form the foundation of his later philosophyin very good condition, though there is a faint erased pencil mark on the first endpaper see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The two disciplines agree that the mysteries of the "creativity of language" can only be resolved by constructing a theory of languagescientific investigations now under way will allegedly make clear that a language is a highly complex system of rules which speakers tacitly knowoxfam bookshop preston theoretical linguistics, pioneered by saussure and much influenced by chomsky's ideas, lays claim to revolutionary insights into the nature of language and the mindlanguage, sense and nonsense argues that these influential disciplines are the pseudosciences of the age, grounded in conceptual confusions and protected from ridicule only by a facade of scientific procedure and mathematical sophisticationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morephilosophy of language, inspired by frege, wittgenstein, carnap and tarski, and developed by davidson and dummett, purports to reveal the hidden forms of thought and inference
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He asks whether the language is actually changing as fast as we suppose, and, if so, whyoxfam bookshop cheltenham is the english language in decline? many people seem to think so--but philip howard isn't one of themhoward here examines the language in its various branches and categories, such as grammar and pronunciation, spelling and punctuation, dialect and slangand where we can't help it, he says, we should lie back and enjoy its immense richness, which is unrivaled by any other languagehis is not the panglossian attitude that all is neccessarily for the best in the best of all possible languages, but he does feel that change is necessary--and healthy--in any living languagehe navigates the back streets of euphemism and the broad, boring boulevards of clichesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe literary editor of the times of london, howard takes a robust, commonsensical view of the changes that are happening in englishhoward argues that as far as we can, we should strive to direct and control the changes in english in ways that increase its powerrather than have us wring our hands, philip howard entreats us, with his customary with and erudition, to use our tongues in concert with our brainshe discusses the effect the new technologies, from cable tv to photocomposition, are having on the mother tongue, and he examines the new dialects that are coming into use
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The essays, a number of which were originally delivered as lectures in the university of cambridge and all of which are by specialists in the field, combine to provide a history of the german language in its social contextoxfam books & music beeston peter lang, , paperback very good condition the contributions to this volume explore eleven key developments in the external history of the german language, that is, the combination of social, political and cultural circumstances which influenced the language and its speakerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morean overarching theme is the role of deliberate intervention in the development of german, whether it took the form of education, prescriptivism, purism or political manipulationothers are studies of particular periods, places or groups which have not found their place in more narrative accounts: standardisation in the nineteenth century, the role of low german, the state of german at the stunde null insome of these 'landmarks' are individuals or groups of people who have exerted influence over the language: charlemagne, luther, the early modern grammarians and lexicographers
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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury what were the beginnings of the english language? why has american culture spread so successfully and will it continue to do so even as the countries power apparently wanes? why are the west indies no longer any good at cricket? what difference did slavery make to the way we speak english today?packed with nuggets of information about language, culture, history and power, robert mccrum traces the way that the english language as twisted and turned in response to the way the world has changed, and how, even as the british empire is long dead, the language extends its influence further and further in a globalised worldpages all in clean crisp conditioncloth cover in good condition with some signs of wear to the spine edges see oxfam website for delivery information read morebook condition: dust jacket in good condition with some signs of being read to the edgesauthors signature to the title page
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Oxfam bookshop preston this is the third edition of chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published inchapters 1-6 present chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (universal grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (i-language)the final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the 'biolinguistic' approach that has guided chomsky's work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mindover the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questionssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first centurythe first six chapters, originally published in the s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory
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It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of historythe essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence softcover in excellent conditionthe author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislatethe chapters include studies of societies in germany, china, usa and india, pre-revolutionary france and 19th-century britain and americawords such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the french and american revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant conceptsoxfam bookshop carlisle this book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselvespages clean and unmarked see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Written by the inventor of the language, this book is the defining text on the languagethe focus of the book is on showing how the language is used as a tool for design and programming, teaching the basic concepts used to master cbefore moving to academia, he worked for decades in at&t bell labsauthor(s) bjarne stroustrup
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But we do languagemouth full of blood is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us allthe sweep of american history and the current state of politics'the nobel lecture in literature, see oxfam website for delivery information read more" - oprah winfreya vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered american writersspanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around usour truth-tellerthe duty of the press and the role of the artistit celebrates morrison's extraordinary contribution to the literary worldthat may be the measure of our livesthat may be the meaning of lifemorrison's nobel lecture, on the power of language, is accompanied by lectures to amnesty international and the newspaper association of america'word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other lifeshe revisits the bluest eye, sula and beloved; reassessing the novels that have become touchstones for generations of readersthroughout mouth full of blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise is met by toni morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellence"she was our consciencethey are concerned with race, gender and globalisationshe speaks to graduating students and visitors to both the louvre and america's black holocaust museumshe used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend themthe collection is structured in three parts and these are heart-stoppingly introduced by a prayer for the dead of 9/11, a meditation on martin luther king and a eulogy for james baldwinshe was a magician with language, who understood the power of words
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The story of drama tragedy, comedy and sacrifice from the greeks to the present by gary day (paperback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 9 to 11 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam bookshop woodbridge this new text provides a lively introduction to the remarkable developments in philosophy of language in this century, and to the way theses developments have impinged upon religious language, particularly christian discourse no inscriptions or annotations see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop colne road featuring latinate and celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprisingin this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert david crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively english word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering)see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Publisher: koros press interpretation of language and literature contributors/editors: ibrahim abukhattala, et alcom/language-linguistics-literature/-interpretation_of_language_and_literaturedate: price: ÂŁ http://www
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Publisher: koros press aspects of language teaching contributors/editors: siu-lun lee, et alcom/language-linguistics-literature/-aspects_of_language_teachingdate: price: ÂŁ http://www
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You ll also learn good programming practices, memory management, and helpful debugging strategies general skills that will be relevant to programming in any languageoxfam bookshop hertford with its colorful, block-based interface, the lego mindstorms ev3 programming language is designed to allow anyone to program intelligent robots, but its powerful features can be intimidating at firstas you follow along, you ll program your robot to: react to different environments and respond to commands - follow a wall to navigate a maze - display drawings that you input with dials, sensors, and data wires on the ev3 screen - play a simon says style game that uses arrays to save your high score - follow a line using a pid-type controller like the ones in real industrial systemssee oxfam website for delivery information read more all of the book s programs work with one general-purpose test robot that you ll build early on inside, you ll discover how to combine core ev3 elements like blocks, data wires, files, and variables to create sophisticated programsthe art of lego mindstorms ev3 programming is a full-color, beginner-friendly guide designed to bridge that gap
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury the acquisition of the german case system by foreign language learners (processability approaches to language acquisition research & teaching) kristof baten john benjamins publishing company (31 july ) see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop great dunmow here is a most informative introduction to language; its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoplesthis book was sir john harvey-jones (chairman of ici) choice on "desert island discs" !! see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Developmental disorders of language learning and cognition by charles hulme (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 8 to 10 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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