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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

Paperback • 2015 • English

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

By Ray Jackendoff

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About the book

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of ne...Show more

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9780198736455

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

Format

Paperback

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