Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674253051
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
Acts of Meaning
Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674253051
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674253051
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
Acts of Meaning
Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674003613
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its fixation on a computational model of mind, has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations of this model can we grasp the interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674003613
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its fixation on a computational model of mind, has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations of this model can we grasp the interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
Author: William P. Alston
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501700413
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that the distinguished analytic philosopher William P. Alston addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play the role that its speaker had in mind, what he terms the usability of the sentence to perform the illocutionary act intended by its speaker.Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act of saying something with a certain "content." He develops his account of what it is to perform such acts in terms of taking responsibility, in uttering a sentence, for the existence of certain conditions. In requesting someone to open a window, for example, the speaker takes responsibility for its being the case that the window is closed and that the speaker has an interest in its being opened.In Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Alston expands upon this concept, creating a framework of five categories of illocutionary act and going on to argue that sentence meaning is fundamentally a matter of illocutionary act potential; that is, for a sentence to have a particular meaning is for it to be usable to perform illocutionary acts of a certain type. In providing detailed and explicit patterns of analysis for the whole range of illocutionary acts, Alston makes a unique contribution to the field of philosophy of language—one that is likely to generate debate for years to come.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501700413
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that the distinguished analytic philosopher William P. Alston addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play the role that its speaker had in mind, what he terms the usability of the sentence to perform the illocutionary act intended by its speaker.Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act of saying something with a certain "content." He develops his account of what it is to perform such acts in terms of taking responsibility, in uttering a sentence, for the existence of certain conditions. In requesting someone to open a window, for example, the speaker takes responsibility for its being the case that the window is closed and that the speaker has an interest in its being opened.In Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Alston expands upon this concept, creating a framework of five categories of illocutionary act and going on to argue that sentence meaning is fundamentally a matter of illocutionary act potential; that is, for a sentence to have a particular meaning is for it to be usable to perform illocutionary acts of a certain type. In providing detailed and explicit patterns of analysis for the whole range of illocutionary acts, Alston makes a unique contribution to the field of philosophy of language—one that is likely to generate debate for years to come.
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Author: Jerome S. BRUNER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029011
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029011
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher.
Expression and Meaning
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521313933
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including indirect and figurative discourse, metaphor and fiction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521313933
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including indirect and figurative discourse, metaphor and fiction.
Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use
Author: Daniel Vanderveken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521374156
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In Meaning and Speech Acts Daniel Vanderveken further develops the logic of speech acts and the logic of propositions to construct a general semantic theory of natural languages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521374156
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In Meaning and Speech Acts Daniel Vanderveken further develops the logic of speech acts and the logic of propositions to construct a general semantic theory of natural languages.
Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions
Author: Armin Burkhardt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110859483
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of J.R. Searle (Foundations of Communication and Cognition).
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110859483
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of J.R. Searle (Foundations of Communication and Cognition).
The Culture of Education
Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674179530
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674179530
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.
The Acts of the Apostles
Author: P.D. James
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857861077
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857861077
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Acts of Compassion
Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140082057X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140082057X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.