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Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs

Cermak Frantisek

ISBN: PB: 9788024643588, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2020
243 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on...

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Linguistics

Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen

Condoravdi Cleo, Holloway King Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9781684000487, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, May 2019
599 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the fo...

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Gift of the Gab How Eloquence Works

Crystal David

ISBN: PB: 9780300226409, ISBN: HB: 9780300214260, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insigh...

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Truth about Language What It Is and Where It Came From

Corballis Michael C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226287195, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident – a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the pro...

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Philosophy

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge

Collins Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226004211, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 3 halftones, 7 line illus.

Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called "tacit knowledge" by physical chemist and philosophe...

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Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 19

Cheon Sang Lee, Sohn Ho-min, Cook Haruko Minegishi, O'Grady William, Serafim Leon Angelo

ISBN: PB: 9781575866185, ISBN: HB: 9781575866192, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
547 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the...

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Little Book of Language

Crystal David

ISBN: PB: 9780300170825, Yale University Press, March 2011
272 pp., 21.1x14 cm, 40 illus.

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a youn...

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Reference

Surprised in Translation

Caws Mary Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226098739, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
128 pp., 21.9x15 cm, 2 halftones

For Mary Ann Caws – noted translator of surrealist poetry – the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction".Surprised...

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