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Author : Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195119894
This book collects the groundbreaking work of linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff in a single volume, with introductions to essays by prominent linguists that provide commentary on the profound influence of Lakoff's work.
Author : Susan Rothstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107001277
The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective. It reviews some recent major linguistic results in these topics, and presents the author's new research including in-depth case studies of a number of typologically unrelated languages.
Author : Jason Stanley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191527556
Natural languages all contain constructions the interpretation of which depends upon the situation in which they are used. In Language and Context, Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. The reason we can so smoothly operate with sentences that can be used to express very different items of information, Stanley argues, is that there are linguistically mandated constraints on the effects of the situation on what we say. These linguistically mandated constraints are most evident in the cases of sentences containing explicit pronouns, such as 'She is a mathematician', where interpretation of the information expressed is guided by the use of the pronoun 'she'. But even when such explicit pronouns are lacking, our sentences provide similar cues to allow our interlocutors to determine the information expressed. We are, in the main, confident that our interlocutors will smoothly grasp what we say, because the grammar and meaning of our sentences encodes these constraints. In defending this theory, Stanley pays close attention to specific cases of context-sensitive constructions, such as quantified noun phrases, comparative adjectives, and conditionals. Philosophers and cognitive scientist have appealed to the dependence of what is intuitively said by a sentence on the situation in which it is uttered to argue against the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language. The theory developed in this book is a vigorous defence of the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language against these influential tendencies.
Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 1994-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521422871
This book discusses the idea that our abilities are dependent on the interaction between our minds and the contexts in which they are found.
Author : Shayla Maria Babo Ribeiro
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1527559149
This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict and developing country of Timor-Leste. In doing so, it reports on research that has charted a ‘narrative arc’ comprising the historical background to primary school leadership, as well as the current concerns perceived by primary school leaders and the strategies they adopt when dealing with the challenges encountered in their day-to-day work. This exposition reveals the significant progress that has been made in establishing a universal, mandatory, and free Basic Education system during the country’s emergence as a post-conflict society. It also conveys the ‘lived experience’ of practitioners and describes vividly the realities of their work in leading their schools and communities. The book will be useful for researchers in the field of educational leadership, for school leaders, for education policy makers, and for those responsible for preparing, developing, and supporting primary school leaders in Timor-Leste, as well as in other post-conflict and developing countries.
Author : Andrew Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1134749252
With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving following the debates of the 1980s.
Author : David Garland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674058488
The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states– a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America’s political institutions and cultural conflicts. America’s radical federalism and local democracy, as well as its legacy of violence and racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West. Whereas the elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide abolition from above despite public objections, American elites are unable– and unwilling– to end a punishment that has the support of local majorities and a storied place in popular culture. In the course of hundreds of decisions, federal courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that too often resembled a lynching, producing layers of legal process but also delays and reversals. Yet the Supreme Court insists that the issue is to be decided by local political actors and public opinion. So the death penalty continues to respond to popular will, enhancing the power of criminal justice professionals, providing drama for the media, and bringing pleasure to a public audience who consumes its chilling tales. Garland brings a new clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution– and a new challenge to supporters and opponents alike.
Author : California (State).
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release :
Category : Law
ISBN :
Court of Appeal Case(s): C001644
Author : William Sanday
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Apolgetics
ISBN :
Author : Gerald Lee Gutek
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN :
Leading author, Gerry Gutek, discusses the major philosophical systems and then applies how these systems and ideologies contribute to educational theory. Examines the origen, meaning and relevance to teaching and learning. New Perspectives on Philosophy and Education is organized into three major parts: philosophies, ideologies, and theories of education. Part I examines philosophy and education, idealism, realism, pragmatism, existentialism and postmodernism and analyzes their educational implications; Part II examines Ideology, Nationalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and Marxism and analyzes their educational implications; Part III deals with theory, Essentialism, Progressivism, Social Reconstructionism, Critical Theory, and Globalization in terms of their meaning for education. In drawing out the educational implications of these philosophies, ideologies, and theories, the author places them in the context of education, schooling, curriculum, and instruction. Pedagogical aspects include discussion questions, topics for reflection and research, websites, and suggested readings.