The book aims to give prominence to the way the concept of communication has been deployed within philosophical debates. It shows how philosophers have adopted this concept in their discussions on the issues of intersubjectivity, community and the ethics of dialogue.
The book aims to give prominence to the way the concept of communication has been deployed within philosophical debates. It shows how philosophers have adopted this concept in their discussions on the issues of intersubjectivity, community and the ethics of dialogue.
In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so many languages.
This book provides the first explicit examination of the underlying ontology of the ecological/embodied cognition philosophical project. More specifically, it examines the locative concepts used by defenders of representationalism and the more environmentally oriented, ecological/embodied views on cognition.
Based on a substantial amount of new data taken from Faroese and Icelandic, this pioneering book presents a new theory of grammar, which explains a wide variety of sentence types across languages. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced students in syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, and European languages.
This Element introduces PrInDT, a decision-tree method for modeling extra- and intralinguistic variables in World Englishes. It balances interpretability and accuracy, handles unbalanced classes, supports classification and regression, and analyzes multiple variables, with examples from England, Singapore, and St. Martin.