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Author: Stephen David Ross Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 9780823215188 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 316
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What makes the author's approach unique is its concern with the ways in which we may understand language and its relation to the world and ourselves as a question of limits, drawing upon contemporary continental and English-language views of language, philosophical and linguistic, from American pragmatists such as Peirce and Dewey, and from important contemporary sources such as feminist theory.
Author: Stephen David Ross Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 9780823215188 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 316
Book Description
What makes the author's approach unique is its concern with the ways in which we may understand language and its relation to the world and ourselves as a question of limits, drawing upon contemporary continental and English-language views of language, philosophical and linguistic, from American pragmatists such as Peirce and Dewey, and from important contemporary sources such as feminist theory.
Author: Rei R. Noguchi Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte) ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 140
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Intended for practitioners, this study has three principal aims: (1) to reduce the breadth of formal grammar instruction by first locating those areas where grammar and writing overlap and then identifying those kinds of writing problems most amenable to treatment with a grammar-based approach; (2) to decrease the classroom hours spent on formal grammar instruction by showing how to capitalize on the already acquired yet unconscious knowledge that all native writers have of their language; and (3) to make this streamlined "writer's grammar" more productive by showing how to integrate it with style, content, and organization. The book is directed toward teachers of writing who, to varying degrees, struggle with the unwieldy partnership of grammar and writing. Chapters 1 and 2 serve to examine some probable reasons why grammar instruction has failed to improve writing quality, to delimit radically the scope of grammar instruction, and to identify specific areas where a knowledge of a minimal set of grammatical categories might be of help. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on the use of native-speaker abilities in place of formal grammar instruction to treat certain kinds of sentence-level writing problems. Chapter 5 suggests a promising way to integrate the diminished focus on grammar with style, content, and organization. Finally, chapter 6 summarizes several pragmatic paradoxes that currently beset grammar instruction in the schools. (MG)
Author: Hanne Appelqvist Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351202650 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 281
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The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations, Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism, and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar, the method of philosophy, the nature of the subject, and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics, aesthetics, and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries, including Carnap, Frege, Heidegger, Levinas, and Moore.
Author: Geoffrey Sampson Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110290014 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 360
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Linguists have standardly assumed that grammar is about identifying all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, which implies that there must be other, 'bad' sentences - but in practice most linguists know that it is hard to pin those down. The standard assumption is no more than an assumption. A century ago, grammarians did not think about their subject that way, and our book shows that the older idea was right: linguists can and should dispense with the concept 'starred sentence'. We draw on corpus data in order to support a different model of grammar, in which individuals refine positive grammatical habits to greater or lesser extents in diverse and unpredictable directions, but nothing is ever ruled out. Languages are not merely alternative methods of verbalizing universal logical forms. We use empirical evidence to shed light on the routes by which school-age children gradually expand their battery of grammatical resources, which turn out to be sometimes counter-intuitive. Our rejection of the 'starred sentence' concept has attracted considerable discussion, and we summarize the reactions and respond to our critics. The contrasting models of grammar described in this book entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our closing chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension.
Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226577197 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 212
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Newmeyer persuasively defends the controversial theory of transformational generative grammar. Grammatical Theory is for every linguist, philosopher, or psychologist who is skeptical of generative grammar and wants to learn more about it. Newmeyer's formidable scholarship raises the level of debate on transformational generative grammar. He stresses the central importance of an autonomous formal grammar, discusses the limitations of "discourse-based" approaches to syntax, cites support for generativist theory in recent research, and clarifies misunderstood concepts associated with generative grammar.
Author: Peter Pink-Howitt Publisher: Peter Pink–Howitt ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 106
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The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to remarkable advances in natural language processing (NLP), enabling machines to process human language with increasing sophistication. While this progress holds extraordinary promise for various applications, it also raises profound philosophical questions about meaning, sentience and understanding within language games. This paper delves into the intricate relationship and interplay between AI, language and meaning. It explores some of the philosophical underpinnings of language, examining how AI systems can extract, translate and manipulate semantically sensible content. It also investigates a few of the challenges of developing AI systems with the ability to ‘understand’ meaningful language that goes beyond surface semantic and syntactic proficiency, algorithmic intelligence and the probabilistic semantic route finding used by Large Language Models (LLMs) with their reliance on large data sets. The paper addresses the wider limits of logic and language for humans as well as for digital intelligence. By examining some of the philosophical and practical dimensions of meaning in AI NLP and LLM, this paper aims to foster a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in this rapidly evolving field. It seeks to promote informed discussions about AI language models, ensuring that these powerful tools are used to improve human understanding and communication. The paper seeks to encourage greater humility in how Homo sapiens define and approach the concept of intelligence. The author deprecates our historic excessive interspecies exceptionalism. The author makes no claims of original thoughts or research in the fields of philosophy of language, linguistics or the development of more generally applicable AI. The paper is intended to help specify the key issues using ordinary human readable language and to understand some of the main conceptual issues involved in the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Images stated as being by the author have been created using generative AI image creation tools.
Author: Peter Culicover Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004373160 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 415
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Contains a collection of essays which explore the ways in which greater incorporation of nonsyntactic explanations into linguistic research may deepen the understanding of problematic linguistic phenomena and, at the same time, strengthen syntactic research. It also addresses the status of syntactic constraints.
Author: M.A.K. Halliday Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1441120572 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 453
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For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday. This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new chapter entitled 'A Personal Perspective', in which Halliday offers his own current perspective on language and linguistic theory. The first part of the book presents early papers (1957-66) on basic concepts such as system, structure, class and rank. The second part highlights how, over the span of two decades (the 1960s to mid-1980s), Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text. The last part, 'Construing and Abstracting', includes more recent work, in which Halliday discusses the issues confronting those who study linguistics, using Firth's description of linguistics - 'language turned back on itself'.
Author: Michael N. Forster Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400826047 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 264
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What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its "arbitrariness"--and does so with great subtlety. This book explores Wittgenstein's views on these questions. Part I interprets his conception of grammar as a generalized (and otherwise modified) version of Kant's transcendental idealist solution to a puzzle about necessity. It also seeks to reconcile Wittgenstein's seemingly inconsistent answers to the question of whether or not grammar is arbitrary by showing that he believed grammar to be arbitrary in one sense and non-arbitrary in another. Part II focuses on an especially central and contested feature of Wittgenstein's account: a thesis of the diversity of grammars. The author discusses this thesis in connection with the nature of formal logic, the limits of language, and the conditions of semantic understanding or access. Strongly argued and cleary written, this book will appeal not only to philosophers but also to students of the human sciences, for whom Wittgenstein's work holds great relevance.
Author: Stephen David Ross
Author: Stephen David Ross
Author: Rei R. Noguchi
Author: Hanne Appelqvist
Author: Rodney Charles Johnson
Author: Geoffrey Sampson
Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer
Author: Peter Pink-Howitt
Author: Peter Culicover
Author: M.A.K. Halliday
Author: Michael N. Forster