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Item specifics
- Condition
- Weight
- 538grams
- Subjects
- N/A
- Pages
- 280
- Size
- 23.6 x 2.5 x 15.7 cm
- Topic
- Language
- Type
- Unknown
- ISBN
- 9780190256623
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Instruction of Imagination: Language As a Social Communication Technology
- Item Height
- 241 mm
- Book Series
- Foundations of Human Interaction
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Item Weight
- 510 g
- Item Width
- 165 mm
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the biological world target the interlocutors' senses; language allows speakers to systematically instruct their interlocutors in the process of imagining the intended meaning - instead of directly experiencing it. This revolutionary function has changed human life forever, and in the book it operates as a unifying concept around which a new general theory of language gradually emerges. Dor identifies a set of fundamental problems in the linguistic sciences - the nature of words, the complexities of syntax, the interface between semantics and pragmatics, the causal relationship between language and thought, language processing, the dialectics of universality and variability, the intricacies of language and power, knowledge of language and its acquisition, the fragility of linguistic communication and the origins and evolution of language - and shows with respect to all of them how the theory provides fresh answers to the problems, resolves persistent difficulties in existing accounts, enhances the significance of empirical and theoretical achievements in the field, and identifies new directions for empirical research. The theory thus opens a new way towards the unification of the linguistic sciences, on both sides of the cognitive-social divide.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780190256623
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
The Instruction of Imagination: Language As a Social Communication Technology
Book Series
Foundations of Human Interaction
Publication Year
2015
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
241 mm
Item Weight
510 g
Item Width
165 mm
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United States
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- *****- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book was delivered very promptly and very safely and securely packaged. Despatch, due delivery and actual delivery times and dates all confirmed by email from seller which was very helpful and very much appreciated. The book itself was in perfect brand new condition as described. A first rate transaction from an excellent seller. Highly recommended. Many thanks!