Author : H. Paul Grice
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780674852716
Grice’s account of speaker-meaning is the standard others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. He has carefully framed these essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing.
Author : Paul Grice
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674254201
This volume, Paul Grice’s first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His discussion of conversational implicatures has given philosophers an important tool for the investigation of all sorts of problems; it has also laid the foundation for a great deal of work by other philosophers and linguists about presupposition. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is starting to be considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. This is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 1990-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521398312
C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
Author : Dr. Frank Luntz
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1401385745
The nation's premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this country In Words That Work, Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. With chapters like "The Ten Rules of Successful Communication" and "The 21 Words and Phrases for the 21st Century," he examines how choosing the right words is essential. Nobody is in a better position to explain than Frank Luntz: He has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. Hell tell us why Rupert Murdoch's six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because satellite was more cutting edge than "digital cable," and why pharmaceutical companies transitioned their message from "treatment" to "prevention" and "wellness." If you ever wanted to learn how to talk your way out of a traffic ticket or talk your way into a raise, this book's for you.
Author : Lotfi A. Zadeh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3642274730
In essence, Computing with Words (CWW) is a system of computation in which the objects of computation are predominantly words, phrases and propositions drawn from a natural language. CWW is based on fuzzy logic. In science there is a deep-seated tradition of according much more respect to numbers than to words. In a fundamental way, CWW is a challenge to this tradition. What is not widely recognized is that, today, words are used in place of numbers in a wide variety of applications ranging from digital cameras and household appliances to fraud detection systems, biomedical instrumentation and subway trains. CWW offers a unique capability—the capability to precisiate natural language. Unprecisiated (raw) natural language cannot be computed with. A key concept which underlies precisiation of meaning is that of the meaning postulate: A proposition, p, is a restriction on the values which a variable, X—a variable which is implicit in p—is allowed to take. CWW has an important ramification for mathematics. Addition of the formalism of CWW to mathematics empowers mathematics to construct mathematical solutions of computational problems which are stated in a natural language. Traditional mathematics does not have this capability.
Author : John Langshaw Austin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 019824553X
This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophicalproblems.
Author : Michael Stubbs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2001-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0631208321
This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.
Author : Maurice O'Connor Drury
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Hasselgård
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9004653686
Main headings: Introduction. - I. Representing language use. - II. Grammar and lexis in English corpora. - III. Contrastive and translation studies. - IV. English abroad. - List of Stig Johansson's publications (selection).
Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804740784
This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Rancière leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals toward the moment, perhaps always suspended, when the word finds its flesh. That is what he, a valiant and good-humored companion to these texts, goes questing for through seven essays examining a wide variety of familiar and unfamiliar works. A text is always a commencement, the word setting out on its excursions through the implausible vicissitudes of narrative and the bizarre phantasmagorias of imagery, Don Quixote's unsent letter reaching us through generous Balzac, lovely Rimbaud, demonic Althusser. The word is on its way to an incarnation that always lies ahead of the writer and the reader both, in this anguished democracy of language where the word is always taking on its flesh.
