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Author: Jonathan D. Raskin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 368
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The constructivist theories of psychology in this book examine the ways in which people create meaningful understandings of the world and use them to guide themselves through life.
Author: Jonathan D. Raskin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
The constructivist theories of psychology in this book examine the ways in which people create meaningful understandings of the world and use them to guide themselves through life.
Author: A. Margalit Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402041047 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 314
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The second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was held in Jerusalem on April 25-28, 1976. The symposium was originally planned to celebrate the 60th birthday of Y ehoshua Bar-Hillel, philosopher and friend. But his sudden death intervened, and turned celebration into commemoration. The topic of the symposiumwas Meaning and Use. For Bar-Hillel, the question 'meaning or use?' was of great importance, one which he took as a question of priorities. Which approach to natural language is prior: the formal, semantical approach, which accords a central position to the truth functional concept of meaning and to the theory of reference, or rather the alternative approach which accords the central position to linguistic commu nication and prefers dealing with speech acts to dealing with Statements? Bar Hillel's answer to this question, in his later years, can be summed up by our title, meaning and use: neither approach deserves priority, each is equally necessary, and they both complement each other. Those familiar with Bar Hillel's uncompromising intellectual honesty would know that this answer does not reflect a superficial wish for domestic peace, but stems rather from deep and informed convictions. The issues of meaning and use dominated Bar-Hillel's intellectuallife. At the same time his day-to-day existence was guided by the idea that the meaning of life is to be found in being useful, particularly in being useful to the community of seekers of knowledge.
Author: Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527571815 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 349
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This volume brings together a number of researchers working on generative syntax and semantics, language acquisition and phonology to explore various theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative grammar and formal semantics to more descriptive approaches. The contributions gathered here investigate various aspects in the syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition of Romanian in comparison with other (mainly Romance) languages. The book will be of interest to linguists who are keen on keeping up with the latest advances in the field of Romance studies, as well as those whose research bears on languages such as Hungarian, German, and Maltese, among others.
Author: W.G. Lycan Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9780792330073 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 368
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Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous competitors, Meinongianism and David Lewis' theory of existent concrete worlds. Related issues of essentialism and linguistic reference are explored. Part II takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. There are skeptical analyses of analyticity and the notion of a logical constant; and an `infinite polysemy' thesis is defended. The book will be of particular interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics.
Author: Matthew Gumpert Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 9781443839150 Category : Catastrophical, The Languages : en Pages : 0
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From the poetry of classical Greece to the popular culture of contemporary America, this book seeks to show that catastrophe, precisely as the notion of the sui generis, has always been generic. To single out catastrophe as the exceptional, or the monstrous, or the modern, runs contrary to the proposition underlying the essays here.
Author: David BORDWELL Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674028538 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 353
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David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques--a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.
Author: Jonathan D. Raskin
Author: Jonathan D. Raskin
Author: A. Margalit
Author: Michel Bréal
Author: Jane Desmond
Author: Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru
Author: W.G. Lycan
Author: Stephen Crain
Author: Lady Victoria Welby
Author: Matthew Gumpert
Author: David BORDWELL