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Language vs. Reality
Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
ISBN: 9780262548465
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind's greatest invention.
Categories We Live By
How We Classify Everyone and Everything
ISBN: 9780262547031
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
An in-depth analysis of how humanity's compulsion to categorize affects every aspect of our lived experience.
Experimental Translation
The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production
ISBN: 9781913380700
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
The history and future of an alternative, oppositional translation practice.
Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
ISBN: 9780262547154
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
Linguistic Bodies
The Continuity between Life and Language
ISBN: 9780262547864
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language.
On Linearization
Toward a Restrictive Theory
ISBN: 9780262544955
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 7, 2023
The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.
Structure
Concepts, Consequences, Interactions
ISBN: 9780262544542
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters.
What It All Means
Semantics for (Almost) Everything
ISBN: 9780262047432
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.
Semantics as Science
ISBN: 9780262539951
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
An introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.
Language vs. Reality
Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
ISBN: 9780262548465
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2024
A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind's greatest invention.
Categories We Live By
How We Classify Everyone and Everything
ISBN: 9780262547031
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
An in-depth analysis of how humanity's compulsion to categorize affects every aspect of our lived experience.
Experimental Translation
The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production
ISBN: 9781913380700
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
The history and future of an alternative, oppositional translation practice.
Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
ISBN: 9780262547154
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
Linguistic Bodies
The Continuity between Life and Language
ISBN: 9780262547864
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 9, 2023
A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language.
On Linearization
Toward a Restrictive Theory
ISBN: 9780262544955
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 7, 2023
The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.
Structure
Concepts, Consequences, Interactions
ISBN: 9780262544542
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters.
What It All Means
Semantics for (Almost) Everything
ISBN: 9780262047432
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.
Semantics as Science
ISBN: 9780262539951
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
An introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.