Prehistoric Iberia: Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics

This book is a historical study of influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, explored from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889–1957). Although no ‘Great Man’ in his own right, Ogden had a personal connection, reflected in his work, to several of the most significant figures of the age. The background to the ideas espoused in Ogden’s book The Meaning of Meaning, co-authored with I.A. Richards (1893–1979), is examined in detail, along with the application of these ideas in his international language project Basic English. A richly interlaced network of connections is revealed between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics, all inevitably shaped by the contemporary cultural and political environment. In particular, significant interaction is shown between Ogden’s ideas, the varying versions of ‘logical atomism’ of Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and Ludwig Wittgensten (1889–1951), Victoria Lady Welby’s (1837–1912) ‘significs’, and the philosophy and political activism of Otto Neurath (1882–1945) and Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) of the Vienna Circle. Amid these interactions emerges a previously little known mutual exchange between the academic philosophy and linguistics of the period and the practically oriented efforts of the international language movement.

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Conquer and Score: A Word Formation Game for Language Learners

International Journal of Modern Languages And Applied Linguistics ◽

10.24191/ijmal.v3i1.7426 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 10

Author(s):

Anealka Aziz Hussin ◽

Tuan Sarifah Aini Syed Ahmad

Keyword(s):

Language Learners ◽

Cognitive Skills ◽

English Language ◽

Word Formation ◽

Language Games ◽

Safe Environment ◽

Learning Path ◽

Derivational Morphemes ◽

And Linguistics ◽

Formation Game

Engaging students in language activities can sometimes be challenging for language educators. One of the ways to engage students in language activities is through language games. Language games can motivate students to communicate, strengthens their ability to comprehend the language and enhance their problem-solving and cognitive skills. Language games also have a vast potential to increase engagement of the students, thus lead to the creation of the Conquer & Score: The Derivational Island. It is a word formation enrichment game catering to students learning lexicology and linguistics. The topic was chosen based on the result of an online quiz on the types of morphemes. The game focuses on the derivational morphemes used to form the English language words. The game requires knowledge of morphology as well as basic lexical analysis skills. The game provides educators a fun and engaging reinforcement activity for the students. Gamification elements used in the game such as rewards, flexible learning path and progress indicator offer a safe environment for competition, which can motivate students to outdo each other to win the game. This paper also highlights some important aspects of games in learning.

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Battestini, Simon p.x. Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics 1986. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1987Battestini, Simon p.x. Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics 1986. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1987, 267 pp.

Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes ◽

10.3138/cmlr.44.4.766 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 766-767

Author(s):

François Paré

Keyword(s):

Round Table ◽

Georgetown University ◽

And Linguistics

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Mobile Perception and the Automotive Prosthetic

Transfers ◽

10.3167/trans.2011.010105 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 73-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Charissa N. Terranova

Keyword(s):

Urban Sprawl ◽

Human Body ◽

Conceptual Art ◽

Robert Smithson ◽

Martha Rosler ◽

The World ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

And Linguistics

This essay focuses on a body of photoconceptual works from the 1960s and 1970s in which the automobile functions as a prosthetic-like aperture through which to view the world in motion. I argue that the logic of the “automotive prosthetic“ in works by Paul McCarthy, Dennis Hopper, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Wall, John Baldessari, Richard Prince, Martha Rosler, Robert Smithson, Ed Kienholz, Julian Opie, and Cory Arcangel reveals a techno-genetic understanding of conceptual art, functioning in addition and alternatively to semiotics and various philosophies of language usually associated with conceptual art. These artworks show how the automobile, movement on roads and highways, and the automotive landscape of urban sprawl have transformed the human sensorium. I surmise that the car has become a prosthetic of the human body and is a technological force in the maieusis of the posthuman subject. I offer a reading of specific works of photoconceptual art based on experience, perception, and a posthumanist subjectivity in contrast to solely understanding them according to semiotics and linguistics.

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Power, Ambiguity, and Deception

10.1093/oso/9780190669898.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Roger W. Shuy

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Power Control ◽

Legal Institution ◽

Institutional Level ◽

Institutional Power ◽

Control Authority ◽

And Linguistics

This chapter reviews the research of social science and linguistics on power, ambiguity, and deception when treated separately at the macro institutional level and at the micro non-institutional level, noting the lack of studies of macro institutional power employed in the same context with micro non-institutional individuals. The characteristics of institutional power, control, authority, domination, reinterpretation, inequality, and persuasion are transparent and non-negotiable in the legal arena, in contrast with their absence for the powerless persons with whom the legal institution interacts. In non-institutional individual contexts these characteristics are often negotiable. When institutional power interacts with individuals who lack that power, the government’s non-negotiable advantage would appear to be transparent, but this is not always true. This outwardly transparent power also can be realized through the use of ambiguity, which can contain deceptiveness. This chapter reprises the research on ambiguity and deception, in the contexts of both law and linguistics.

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Semantics for Reasons

10.1093/oso/9780198832621.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bryan R. Weaver ◽

Kevin Scharp

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Moral Reasons ◽

Leading Role ◽

Special Place ◽

Question Under Discussion ◽

And Linguistics

The focus of the book is the semantics of reasons locutions, for example reasons for someone to do something or believe something or be a certain way. Given the leading role that talk of reasons plays in many different kinds of philosophy, the book addresses issues in the theory of reasons, metaethics, epistemology, the philosophies of language and perception, and linguistics. The primary aim of the book is to present and defend a contextualist semantics of reasons locutions. the book’s contextualism for reasons locutions is based on the idea that conversations have a particular question under discussion (QUD). The QUD in a conversation determines which meaning the word ‘reason’ has in that context. The book shows why reasons contextualism is preferable to four competing views on the topic: Simon Blackburn’s expressivism, Stephen Finlay’s conceptual analysis, Tim Henning’s alternative contextualism, and Niko Kolodny’s relativism. In addition, the work pursues secondary aims of consolidating insights about the nature of reasons from different philosophical subfields and establishing results about reasons in several debates ranging across philosophy. In particular, the book draws the implications of reasons contextualism for the ontology of reasons, indexical facts, whether there are reasons to be rational, the nature of moral reasons, and the idea that reasons have a special place in the realm of normative phenomena in general.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780199656547.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michele Loporcaro

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

Binary Systems ◽

Grammatical Gender ◽

Romance Languages ◽

Cognitive Neuropsychology ◽

Gender System ◽

And Linguistics ◽

Morphosyntactic Feature

‘Gender’ is a manifold notion, at the crossroads between sociology, biology, and linguistics. The Introduction delimits the scope of linguistic (or grammatical) gender, which is an inherent morphosyntactic feature of nouns in about half of the world’s languages, introducing the definitions and notions which the present work utilizes to investigate gender. While focusing on grammar, this study has implications far beyond (e.g. for gender studies), and capitalizes on findings from other disciplines, such as cognitive neuropsychology. The chapter introduces the basic aim of the monograph, which intends to account for the steps through which the Latin three-gender system was reshaped into the binary systems shared today by most standard Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, and Italian). One crucial definitional tool, highlighted in this chapter, is the distinction between target and controller genders: the two need not coincide everywhere, and mismatches between the two may arise—and did arise in Romance—through change.

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