Reflections On Language
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Reflections On Language
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1975
Reflections On Language written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Education categories.
" Noam Chomsky's work in linguistics has revolutionized our understanding of language. In these remarkable, nontechnical Reflections, Chomsky considers the point and purpose of studying language and explores some of the more general intellectual implications that result from the study of linguistics. The questions he considers are the classical ones. From Plato to the present time, philosophers have been baffled and intrigued by how human beings, with their limited and personal experience, achieve such rich systems of knowledge, beliefs, and values-- systems that guide their actions and their interpretations of experience. In answer to this fundamental question, Chomsky argues that the growth of language is analogous to the development of a bodily organ and is in large measure predetermined by genetic factors. Throughout these Reflections, Chomsky offers incisive analyses of the controversies raging today among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over the acquisition of cognitive structures, the way language interacts with other mental organs, and the way cognitive structures enter into and guide human activity. He explores the social and intellectual factors that have led to the dominance of certain ways of thinking, and asks why the study of mind and behavior has so often followed a path remote from the general approach of the natural sciences. In examining some of the implications of recent work, her suggests that the conception of man as totally malleable not only is false but also serves naturally as a support for reactionary social doctrines."-- Publisher.
Reflections On Language Teacher Identity Research
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Author : Gary Barkhuizen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Reflections On Language Teacher Identity Research written by Gary Barkhuizen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their conceptual understanding of LTI and the methodological approaches used to investigate it. The chapters are narrative in nature and take the form of guided reflections within a common chapter structure, with authors embedding their discussions within biographical accounts of their professional lives and research work. Authors weave discussions of LTI into their own research biographies, employing a personal reflective style. This book also looks to future directions in LTI research, with suggestions for research topics and methodological approaches. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in language teacher identity as well as language teaching and research more generally.
On Language
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2017-02-07
On Language written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume—an ideal introduction to his work. On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language. “Language and Responsibility is a well-organized, clearly written and comprehensive introduction to Chomsky’s thought.” —The New York Times Book Review “Language and Responsibility brings together in one readable volume Chomsky’s positions on issues ranging from politics and philosophy of science to recent advances in linguistic theory. . . . The clarity of presentation at times approaches that of Bertrand Russell in his political and more popular philosophical essays.” —Contemporary Psychology “Reflections on Language is profoundly satisfying and impressive. It is the clearest and most developed account of the case of universal grammar and of the relations between his theory of language and the innate faculties of mind responsible for language acquisition and use.” —Patrick Flanagan
Reflections On The English Language
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Author : Robert Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1770
Reflections On The English Language written by Robert Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1770 with categories.
Reflections On Language Evolution
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Author : Cedric Boeckx
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2021
Reflections On Language Evolution written by Cedric Boeckx and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics") appears increasingly implausible. This text offers ways of opening up linguistic inquiry and fostering interdisciplinarity, taking advantage of new opportunities to provide quantitative, testable hypotheses concerning the complex evolutionary path that led to the modern human language faculty. The essay is structured around three main themes: (i) renewed appreciation for the comparative method applied to cognitive questions, leading to the identification of elementary but fundamental abstractions in non-linguistic species relevant to language; (ii) awareness of the conceptual gaps between disciplines, and the need to carefully link genotype and phenotype without bypassing any "intermediate" levels of description (certainly not the brain); and (iii) adoption of a "philosophical" outlook that puts the complexity of biological entities front and center.
Reflections On Task Based Language Teaching
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Author : Rod Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2018-06-18
Reflections On Task Based Language Teaching written by Rod Ellis and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the author’s experience of working with teachers, together with his knowledge of relevant research and theory, to examine the key issues. It proposes flexible ways in which tasks can be designed and implemented in the language classroom to address the problems that teachers often face with task-based language teaching. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who are interested in task-based language teaching and the practical and theoretical issues involved. It will also be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of applied linguistics, TESOL and second language acquisition.
Language And The Market Society
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Author : Gerlinde Mautner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-03-28
Language And The Market Society written by Gerlinde Mautner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society - a society in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The book examines the phenomena from a linguistic and critical perspective, drawing on critical discourse analysis and sociological treatises of market society.
Rivers Of Wind
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Author : Ben Kessler
language : en
Publisher: ICRL Press
Release Date :
Rivers Of Wind written by Ben Kessler and has been published by ICRL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Nature categories.
In the midst of ecological catastrophe, indigenous persecution, and the attempted mechanization of the living world, the beauty of the earth remains defiantly vibrant. The voice of the world still speaks in tongues of wind and water, feather and flame, whether we listen or not. Alternately lyric and scientific, critical and moving, Ben Kessler examines the relationships between nature and language, colonial and native cultures, and extinction and memory, and in doing so presents a unique vision of our place in an ancient, fragile living world. Kessler is a teacher, field biologist, gardener, activist, painter, and nurseryman. He lives in a little hollow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia.
The Twitter Machine
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Author : Neil Smith
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1991-01-08
The Twitter Machine written by Neil Smith and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight. In a series of magisterial vignettes Smith emphasizes the perennial necessity of appealing to linguistic theory if we are to gain any real understanding of the phenomena of language. However profound or however trivial the questions we raise and try answer - What exactly does one have to know to count as a speaker of a language? What would it mean for a language to have no vowels? Why do little children call lorries 'lollies'? Precisely what with this sentence is wrong? - we need to recourse to a theory even to make them coherent. In particular, the author argues that we can find solutions to our puzzles, and explanations for these phenomena, if we exploit on the one hand Chomsky's theory of Generative Grammar, and on the other Sperber and Wilson's theory of Relevance.
English In New Cultural Contexts
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Author : Joseph Foley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
English In New Cultural Contexts written by Joseph Foley and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
This book explores the spread of English as a world language and the different ways in which the language has developed and adaapted in new sociocultural contexts.