This book explores medieval pragmatic theory across diverse social discourses, revealing how pragmatic thinking permeated grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature.

A fresh perspective on how early scholars perceived the cosmos and the nature of knowledge through a tour-de-force study of the central role geometry played in medieval creativity.

An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.

This Element offers a comprehensive guide to incorporating metacognitive strategies into the teaching of reading, writing, vocabulary, and listening. It stands as a bridge between theoretical frameworks and actionable teaching practices, enabling educators to enhance their students' language proficiency in a holistic manner.

This book provides an outline of listening theory, offers practical listening methods, and presents how metacognitive instruction can be integrated into real lesson practice. A useful resource for academics, educators, and curriculum designers in the field of applied linguistics, L2 language learning, and foreign language education.

This Element aims to address the complexity of metalinguistic awareness to achieve a thorough account of its impacts on second language (L2) reading development and promote an in-depth understanding of the factors regulating the influence of first language (L1) metalinguistic awareness on L2 reading.

This book contributes to the debate surrounding the origin of language by demonstrating that riddles and myths can be examined as evidence of the emergence of conceptual metaphors, a prerequisite for the development of a complete language.

By using clear language and concrete examples, this book is an integrative work of philosophy and science which offers new insight into a topic of central importance to metaphysics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of science and action, as well as to psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroscience: our agency.

The book defends an account of propositions on which propositions are structured entities, built up out of properties, relations, and abstract and concrete objects. On this account, propositions exist and have truth conditions independent of human minds and linguistic activity.