ISBN:
9780674660205
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067466020X
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 352 Seiten
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25 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Taylor, Charles, 1931 - The language animal
DDC:
401
Keywords:
Language and languages Philosophy
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Linguistics Philosophy
;
Cognition
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Language and languages Philosophy
;
Linguistics Philosophy
;
Cognition
;
Cognition
;
Language and languages Philosophy
;
Linguistics Philosophy
;
Mensch
;
Sprachkompetenz
;
Denken
Abstract:
"In this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and to communicate it. This theory has been rendered more sophisticated over the last two centuries, but it still gives a central place to the encoding of information. The thesis of Taylor's new book is that this view neglects crucial features of our language capacity. Sometimes language serves not just to encode information, but also shapes what it purports to describe. This language is more than merely 'descriptive; ' it plays a 'constitutive' role."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Hier auch weitere unveränderte Nachdrucke erschienen
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Designative and constitutive views
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How language grows
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Beyond information encoding
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The Hobbes-Locke-Condillac theory
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The figuring dimension of language
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Constitution 1 : the articulation of meaning
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Constitution 2 : The creative force of discourse
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How narrative makes meaning
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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The range of human linguistic capacity
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