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Are you aware of how your words create worlds? How your language and listening habits impact, interactions in the classroom, at work, and on the road? Created as a practical guide for learning to communicate well in these contexts, Awareness and Action connects theory with practice.
In Part 1, explore how your senses, previous experiences, and pervading cultural norms filter your perceptions. Once you develop an awareness of the limited details humans...
22) What Is Meaning?
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Scott Soames is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His books include Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Essays, Reference and Description, and Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (all Princeton).
The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of...
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Scott Soames is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His many books include What Is Meaning?, Philosophical Essays, Reference and Description, and Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (all Princeton).
A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkers
In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field-its principal...
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A hilarious romp through the English language. Annotation. For years Richard Lederer has enthralled fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty presentation. Now Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. How many times have we all heard the word viable used in company meetings? Lederer and Dowis show us how "viable,"...
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Cet abécédaire reprend des mots du langage courant souvent employés à mauvais escient...
C'est un support pédagogique listant de A à Z les éléments d'une science, d'un art, d'un parti pris.
L'Abécédaire que vous tenez en main en ce moment liste des mots qui font partie du langage courant et que nous employons souvent de manière empirique, sans vraiment en connaître le ou les différents sens.
500 millions, vous aviez bien lu, nous sommes...
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A fun jaunt into the convoluted wilds of the English language, Sentence Diagramming 101 explores the relationship between words using traditional sentence diagramming, lots of movie references, and plenty of practice exercises (Yes, it has an answer key and a website with cool videos–as cool as grammar videos can be anyway).
This book begins with an overview of the parts of speech before delving into word function and sentence patterns. From...
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Kenneth James Hughes explores the history of language as a made thing. Signs of Literature is a linguistic and structuralist primer - and an excellent companion to glossaries of literary terms and introductory critical texts. The surprise of the book for the lay reader is that it is so richly entertaining.
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In Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living, fanciful characters that one can identify with battle personal problems, mishaps, and mayhem. None of them are guaranteed a happily-ever-after, but by applying the fundamentals of general semantics-a communications-based self-help system-they are better able to evaluate and understand everyday conundrums to successfully vanquish challenging situations. While these twenty-four stories may not be true in...
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Dans ces Contes de fées à mettre en pratique au quotidien, des personnages imaginaires auxquels on peut s'identifier traversent des problèmes personnels, des mésaventures et combattent le chaos. Un bonheur éternel n'est garanti à aucun d'entre eux, mais en appliquant les principes fondamentaux de la Sémantique générale (un système d'aide personnelle basé sur la communication) ils sont mieux à même de résoudre et de comprendre les énigmes...
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Can AI truly fathom literary artistry or emotion? Is there space for machine-human partnership expanding creative frontiers? As artificial intelligence permeates our world, intriguing questions arise around its role in the arts.In The Future of Storytelling: AI and the Art of Flash Fiction, writer Charles Eugene Anderson chronicles his adventures on the frontier of AI-assisted fiction. With warmth and wit, Anderson welcomes you along his journey pioneering...
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"One of FiveBooks' Best Philosophy Books of 2019" Andrew Hui is associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is the author of The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature.
An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures
Aphorisms-or philosophical short sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this...
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When "bird" is not the word, this book tells you what is.
A murder of crows, a charm of goldfinch, a huddle of penguins-groupings of birds are more than just a "flock." Collective nouns for specific types of birds range from fascinating to funny, and this adorable book is your guide to the best of them. Discover the surprising number of different terms, and learn their true meanings-as well as the history behind them. Did C.S. Lewis really coin the...
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