E-book: Concise Compendium of the World's Languages (1998)

Concise Compendium of the World's Languages

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George Campbell “Concise Compendium of the World's Languages" 
Routledge | 1998-05-14 | ISBN: 0415160499 | 684 pages | PDF | 16,1 MB

The The Concise Compendium of the World's Languages provides clear snapshots of over one hundred languages. Drawn from the more comprehensive two volume Compendium of the World's Languages, the articles selected for this volume discuss most languages spoken today by populations of at least five to ten million people, as well as minor languages that figure prominently in the contemporary socio-political context. This combination allows little-known languages, such as Akan, Navajo, Basque and Zulu, to figure prominently alongside the mainstream languages such as Arabic, French, Chinese and Russian. Each entry considers the phonological, morphological and lexical features of the language it discusses. Written for language buffs who want to know-in broad outline-how lots of languages work, this terrific book compiles loads of information in one affordable volume.
George Campbell is a former BBC World Service Linguist and translator.

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E-bok:Brain and Being: At the Boundary Between Science,Philosophy,Language and Arts (2004)

Brain and Being: At the Boundary Between Science,Philosophy,Language and Arts

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Gordon G. Globus, Karl H Pribram, Giuseppe Vitiello “Brain and Being: At the Boundary Between Science,Philosophy,Language and Arts" 
John Benjamins Publishing Co | 2004-10 | ISBN: 9027251940 | 350 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB

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E-book: An Encyclopaedia of Language (1990)

An Encyclopaedia of Language

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N. E. Collinge “An Encyclopaedia of Language" 
Routledge | 1990-01-12 | ISBN: 0415020646 | 1011 pages | PDF | 5,1 MB

In this indispensable reference, twenty-nine leaders in the field describe how language works--accounting for its nature, use, study, and history. An Encyclopaedia of Language provides a truly comprehensive overview of how the various branches of linguistic study have arrived at their current positions. It divides the subject into three logical sections: 1) the "inner nature" of language; 2) its interaction with other disciplines; and 3) some special aspects of its study and use.
Readers will find detailed coverage of: how language works; how language is taught and learned; phonetics; grammar and semantics; how linguists research their subjects and interpret results; second languages; language and computation; writing systems; the history of language study; the evolution of language; the distribution of languages around the world; lexicography; dialectology; and other topics.

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E-book: Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics (2008)

Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

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Philip Pettit “Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics" 
Princeton University Press | 2008-01-03 | ISBN: 0691129290 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.
Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract.
Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought.

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