Meaning Without Words

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Words Without Meaning

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Author : Christopher Gauker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003

Words Without Meaning written by Christopher Gauker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

A critique of, and alternative to, the received view of linguistic communication.

Theology Without Words

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Author : Wayne Morris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17

Theology Without Words written by Wayne Morris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Religion categories.

This book is a study of a Christian theology without words, focussing on theology in the Deaf Community. Deaf people's first and preferred method of communication is not English or any other spoken language, but British Sign Language - a language that cannot be written down. Deaf people of faith attend church on a regular basis, profess faith in God and have developed unique approaches to doing theology. While most Western theology is word-centred and is either expressed through or dependent on written texts, theology in the Deaf Community is largely non-written. This book presents and examines some of that theology from the Deaf Community and argues that written texts are not necessary for creative theological debate, a deep spirituality or for ideas about God to develop.

A Man Without Words

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Author : Susan Schaller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15

A Man Without Words written by Susan Schaller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Social Science categories.

For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.

Thinking Without Words

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Author : Jose Luis Bermudez
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-17

Thinking Without Words written by Jose Luis Bermudez and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-17 with Philosophy categories.

Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the environment. But this theorizing has proceeded without any clear account of the types of thinking available to non-linguistic creatures. One consequence of this is that ascriptions of thoughts to non-linguistic creatures have frequently been held to be metaphorical and not to be taken at face value. Bermúdez offers a conceptual framework for treating human infants and non-human animals as genuine thinkers. Whereas existing discussions of thought at the non-linguistic level have concentrated on how such thoughts might be physically realized, Bermúdez approaches the problem by considering what is required in explaining behavior in psychological terms. In developing a positive account of non-linguistic thought he shows how the experimental tools used by developmental psychologists and students of animal behavior can be used to give a precise account of the way in which a human infant or non-human animal is representing the world. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the differences between thinking without words and language-based thinking. Bermúdez argues that there are clear limits to the expressive power of non-linguistic thought. Nonetheless, he identifies primitive analogues at the non-linguistic level that can be used to explain sophisticated non-linguistic behaviors. Thinking Without Words is the first full-length philosophical study of this important topic. It is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists, and students of animal behavior.

Writing Without Words

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Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1994

Writing Without Words written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.

The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without Words challenges this orthodoxy, and with it widespread notions of literacy and dominant views of art and literature, history and geography. Asking how knowledge was encoded and preserved in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Mesoamerican cultures, the authors focus on systems of writing that did not strive to represent speech. Their work reveals the complicity of ideology in the history of literacy, and offers new insight into the history of writing. The contributors--who include art historians, anthropologists, and literary theorists--examine the ways in which ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples conveyed meaning through hieroglyphic, pictorial, and coded systems, systems inseparable from the ideologies they were developed to serve. We see, then, how these systems changed with the European invasion, and how uniquely colonial writing systems came to embody the post-conquest American ideologies. The authors also explore the role of these early systems in religious discourse and their relation to later colonial writing. Bringing the insights from Mesoamerica and the Andes to bear on a fundamental exchange among art history, literary theory, semiotics, and anthropology, the volume reveals the power contained in the medium of writing. Contributors. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tom Cummins, Stephen Houston, Mark B. King, Dana Leibsohn, Walter D. Mignolo, John Monaghan, John M. D. Pohl, Joanne Rappaport, Peter van der Loo

Speaking Love Without Words Unlocking The Secret Language Of True Connection

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Author : Ranjot Singh Chahal
language : en
Publisher: Rana Books
Release Date : 2025-06-05

Speaking Love Without Words Unlocking The Secret Language Of True Connection written by Ranjot Singh Chahal and has been published by Rana Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-05 with Family & Relationships categories.

Do you ever feel like you're giving your all in a relationship, yet something still feels missing? Love is universal, but the ways we express and receive it are deeply personal. Speaking Love Without Words takes you on a journey to uncover the emotional languages that shape how we bond, heal, and grow with one another. Whether in romance, friendship, family, or work, this book helps you tune into the invisible patterns that make or break emotional connection. Drawing on psychology, personal reflection, and real-life examples, each chapter explores a unique way love is communicated—through presence, words, gestures, touch, and intention. You'll learn how to identify your own emotional language, understand your partner’s needs, and respond in ways that deepen trust, intimacy, and joy. From resolving conflicts to rekindling affection, this book is your practical guide to becoming emotionally fluent. More than a relationship manual, this is a book about emotional transformation. By the final chapter, you'll have the tools not just to love better—but to love more consciously, more kindly, and more enduringly. Discover how to listen without hearing, speak without words, and love in a way that truly lands on the heart.

Words And Meanings

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Author : Cliff Goddard
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-11-28

Words And Meanings written by Cliff Goddard and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from Leibniz, Locke, and Bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the Dalai Lama on happiness. The book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguistics. The authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words.

Mysticism Fullness Of Life

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Author : Panikkar, Raimon
language : en
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 2014-04-30

Mysticism Fullness Of Life written by Panikkar, Raimon and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with Religion categories.

My Pain Is My Legacy

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Author : Alexandria Nolan
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2013-09

My Pain Is My Legacy written by Alexandria Nolan and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Growing up in a fast, dysfunctional world was normal for Alex. Everywhere she went, she was subject to abuse. She would catch the public bus at the age of eight years old in the rough city streets of DC. In the 1980s, watching drunks and drug addicts crowd the bus stop was everyday life. Forced to become street smart after being a ward of the courts for eight years, Alex thought things could not get any worse. Not surprisingly, they did. After trusting someone that she thought had her best interests at heart, she soon finds herself married and pregnant at the age of fifteen, and now a domestic violence victim. Determined not to let her present dictate her future, she began to reach out to God, with writing as her key to all her misery. With faith and strong determination, she changed her life path from being an abused child sexually and physically. As you read this book, you will learn to allow the inner child in you to speak and brighten your path while you discover that until you release your past, you too are still a child within.

Modern Chinese Lexicology

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Author : Ge Benyi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-19

Modern Chinese Lexicology written by Ge Benyi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Centring on "words" which connect vocabulary and semantic morphemes, this book makes a systemic and in-depth analysis on the study of modern Chinese lexicology. Firstly, it clarifies the definitions and properties of vocabulary, words and semantic morphemes in Chinese. Then the structure forms of Chinese words are examined. It is worth noting that this research is one of the first to distinguish word formation and lexical morphology. It observes that word formation studies how neologisms are coined, while lexical morphology refers to the ways in which semantic morphemes are combined with each other. On word meaning and its clustering, it discusses the relationship between word meaning and concept, as well as the criteria and principles of the clustering. Specifically, it studies monosemes, polysemes, synonyms, near-synonyms, antonyms, etc., including their characteristics and types. Lastly, it explores the evolution of word meaning and its laws, as well as the dynamic form of vocabulary. This book will be a valuable reference for scholars and students in linguistics, especially in Chinese lexical studies.