- Aeneas to Augustus
- Mason Hammond
- Anne Amory
- This reader consists of 90 selections illustrating the history of Rome from the myth of Aeneas to the founding of the Augustan Principate. The selections have been chosen with three aims in mind: gradual increase in length and difficulty, continuity of subject matter, and stylistic variety. Historical background is provided in the prefaces to the selections. The present letterpress edition is more convenient to use than its predecessor of 1962. The notes have been extensively revised and the vocabulary has been newly compiled.
- Paperback 1967
- Articulating Reasons
- Robert B. Brandom
- Robert Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out. A tour of the earlier book's large ideas and relevant details, Articulating Reasons offers an easy entry into the ideas of the most important single development in the field in recent decades.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Articulator Features and Portuguese Vowel Height
- Wayne J. Redenbarger
- Paperback 1981
- The Biology and Evolution of Language
- Philip Lieberman
- This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language. Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral biology, Lieberman develops a new approach to the puzzle of language, arguing that it is the result of many evolutionary compromises. Within his discussion, Lieberman skillfully addresses matters as various as the theory of neoteny (which he refutes), the mating calls of bullfrogs, ape language, dyslexia, and computer-implemented models of the brain.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Constructing Panic
- Lisa Capps
- Elinor Ochs
- Foreword by Jerome Bruner
- Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a linguist, the authors propose a new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder. Capps and Ochs open up the largely overlooked potential for linguistic and narrative analysis by revealing the roots of panic and by offering a unique framework for therapeutic intervention.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Constructing a Language
- Michael Tomasello
- In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- The Dialects of Ancient Gaul
- Joshua Whatmough
- Hardcover 1970
- A First Language
- Roger Brown
- For many years, Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic and grammatical aspects of their language development.
- Hardcover 1973 / Paperback
- Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
- Gerald Gazdar
- Ewan Klein
- Geoffrey K. Pullum
- Ivan A. Sag
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
- How to Do Things with Words
- J. L. Austin
- Edited by J. O. Urmson
- Edited by Marina Sbisà
- John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words
- Hardcover / Paperback
- How to Do Things with Words
- J. L. Austin
- Edited by J. O. Urmson
- Edited by Marina Sbisà
- John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words
- Hardcover / Paperback
- Language Acquisition
- Jill G. de Villiers
- Peter A. de Villiers
- The study of language acquisition has become a center of scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind. The result is a windfall of new information about language, about learning, and about children themselves.
- Hardcover 1978
- Language and Symbolic Power
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Edited by John Thompson
- Translated by Gino Raymond
- Translated by Matthew Adamson
- This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should he viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- The Language of Thought
- Jerry A. Fodor
- Paperback
- The Languages of Paradise
- Maurice Olender
- Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 2008
- A Lexical Atlas of the Hutsul Dialects of the Ukrainian Language
- Edited by Janusz Rieger
- Fixed in the Western mind through the cinematic masterpiece Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, the Hutsul people of the Carpathian region live in the crossroads of numerous peoples. The fruition of the late Polish linguist Jan Janów's work, this atlas provides a fundamental resource for Slavic dialectologists.
- Paperback 1996
- Life with Two Languages
- François Grosjean
- Many people consider bilinguals to be exceptional, yet almost half the world's population speaks more than one language. Bilingualism is found in every country of the world, in every class of society, in all age groups. This is the first book to provide a complete and authoritative look at the nature of the bilingual experience. Grosjean, himself a bilingual, covers the topic from each of its many angles in order to provide a balanced introduction to this fascinating phenomenon.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback
- Linguistic Science and the Teaching of English
- Henry Lee Smith
- Hardcover 1956
- Living Narrative
- Elinor Ochs
- Lisa Capps
- This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- Marxism and the Philosophy of Language
- V. N. Volosinov
- Translated by Ladislav Matejka
- Translated by I. R. Titunik
- Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others.
- Paperback
- On Language
- Roman Jakobson
- Edited by Linda Waugh
- Edited by Monique Monville-Burston
- Waugh and Monville-Burston have assembled an intellectual overview of Roman Jakobson's work in linguistics from partial and complete works that they have arranged, introduced, and cross-referenced. Some appear here in print for the first time, others are newly translated into English. Jakobson's general view of the science of linguistics is followed by a range of topics from his stunning contributions to linguistic metatheory and the interdisciplinary perspectives of linguistics to the sound and meaning system of language, the interrelationship between sound and meaning. More than a convenient access to Jakobson's basic works, On Language presents a broad profile of the polymathic general linguist who suggested radical innovations in every area of linguistic theory.
- Paperback 1995 / Hardcover
- Pathways to Language
- Kyra Karmiloff
- Annette Karmiloff-Smith
- A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague in a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force
- Jerrold J. Katz
- Paperback
- Semantic and Conceptual Development
- Frank C. Keil
- In this book, Keil presents the first psychological investigation of the developing child's ontological knowledge. Building on previous philosophical work, Keil shows that ontological categories develop in a highly predictable progression. Moreover, Keil demonstrates that ontological development obeys a strong formal constraint on the relations among categories. Although there are many possible ontological systems, children appear to be inherently targeted to consider a system of only one sort.
- Hardcover 1979
- The Signs of Language
- Edward Klima
- Ursula Bellugi
- In a book with far-reaching implications, Klima and Bellugi present a full exploration of a language in another mode--a language of the hands and of the eyes.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback 1988
- Surface Structure
- Robert Fiengo
- Hardcover 1981
- Syntax and Speech
- William E. Cooper
- Jeanne Paccia-Cooper
- Hardcover 1980
- Testament to Ruthenian
- Stefan Pugh
- Stefan Pugh analyzes the Ruthenian language use of one of its most outstanding practitioners, Meletij Smotryc'kyj (ca. 1578-1633): polemicist, cleric, and scholar. This study will provide the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship on the Ruthenian language.
- Hardcover
- Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language
- Philip Lieberman
- In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language provides a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman asserts that the widely influential theories of language's development are inconsistent with principles and findings of evolutionary biology and neuroscience. In his view, the human language ability is the confluence of a succession of separate evolutionary developments, jury-rigged by natural selection to work together for an evolutionarily unique ability.
- Hardcover 2006
- Unshadowed Thought
- Charles Travis
- This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. Charles Travis targets the seductive illusion that--in Wittgenstein's terms--"if anyone utters a sentence and means or understands it, he is operating a calculus according to definite rules." This book rejects the idea that thoughts are essentially representational items whose content is independent of context. In doing so, it undermines the foundations of much contemporary philosophy of mind.
- Hardcover 2001