The Linguistics Delusion
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Author | : Geoffrey Sampson |
Publisher | : EQUINOX |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Linguistics |
ISBN | : 9781781795774 |
Linguistics is a subject which came to the fore only in the 1960s. It is founded on a fallacy. Linguistics claims to be 'the scientific study of language', but language behaviour is too open-ended and creative to be treated by the methods of science. In consequence, linguistic theories systematically distort the nature of language, and present a misleading picture of our human nature. Geoffrey Sampson shows how various traditions of linguistics, and their accounts of different aspects of language, are all infected by the delusion of scientism. And he offers positive examples of how language can be studied insightfully, once the scientistic delusion is given up.
Author | : Stephen R. Anderson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300115253 |
Annotation Dr. Dolittle--and many students of animal communication--are wrong: animals cannot use language. This fascinating book explains why. Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book explores communication and cognition in animals and humans from a linguistic point of view and asserts that animals are not capable of acquiring or using human language. Stephen R. Anderson explains what is meant by communication, the difference between communication and language, and the essential characteristics of language. Next he examines a variety of animal communication systems, including bee dances, frog vocalizations, bird songs, and alarm calls and other vocal, gestural, and olfactory communication among primates. Anderson then compares these to human language, including signed languages used by the deaf. Arguing that attempts to teach human languagesor their equivalents to the great apes have not succeeded in demonstrating linguistic abilities in nonhuman species, he concludes that animal communication systems--intriguing and varied though they may be--do not include all the essential properties of human language. Animals can communicate, but they can't talk. "Written in a playful and highly accessible style, Anderson's book navigates some of the difficult territory of linguistics to provide an illuminating discussion of the evolution of language."--Marc Hauser, author of "Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think.
Author | : Geoffrey K. Pullum |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1509530789 |
Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many ways in which linguistics, as the scientific study of language, matters. With its close relationships to psychology, education, philosophy, and computer science, the subject has a compelling human story to tell about the ways in which different societies see and describe the world, and its far-reaching applications range from law to medicine and from developmental psychology to artificial intelligence. Introducing Polity’s Why It Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.
Author | : Tomasz P. Krzeszowski |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Contrastive linguistics |
ISBN | : 9783631620786 |
Translation entails transfer of meaning, even if the exact sense of the word "meaning" is vague. The same applies to the term "translation equivalence". Illustrated by numerous examples, this book is an attempt to cope with this and many other conceptual, terminological and practical difficulties resulting from this nebula of issues.
Author | : Geoffrey Sampson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780804711258 |
This book presents a portrait of the contrasting beliefs, assumptions, and intellectual backgrounds of the various schools of linguistics which contributed to the subject throughout the 20th century, beginning with a glimpse of their 19th-century roots.
Author | : Louis A. Sass |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1501732560 |
Insanity—in clinical practice as in the popular imagination—is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommon insight and empathy, Louis A. Sass shatters conventional thinking about insanity by juxtaposing the narratives of delusional schizophrenics with the philosophical writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author | : Kate V. Hardy, Clin.Psych.D. |
Publisher | : American Psychiatric Pub |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2023-06-12 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1615372954 |
Author | : Lisa Bortolotti |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199206163 |
The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of delusions. It brings together recent work in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology and psychiatry, offering a comprehensive review of the philosophical issues raised by the psychology of normal and abnormal cognition.
Author | : George Graham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0198728654 |
What, if anything, is religious or spiritual delusion? What does religious delusion reveal about the difference between good and bad spirituality? The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion is the first book written by a philosopher on the topic of religious delusion - on the disorder's causes, contents, consequences, diagnosis and treatment
Author | : Giovanni Stanghellini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 019960925X |
2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science with the publication of his magnum opus the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology), Many of the issues concerning methodology and diagnosis are today the subject of much discussion and debate. This volume brings together leading psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the impact of this volume, its relevance today, and the legacy it left.