Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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The Adaptable Mind: What Neuroplasticity and Neural Reuse tells us about Language and Cognition 0190067888, 9780190067885

A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has

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The Adaptable Mind: What Neuroplasticity and Neural Reuse Tells Us about Language and Cognition [Hardcover ed.] 0190067888, 9780190067885

A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has

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Why Who Cleans Counts: What Housework Tells Us about American Family Life 9781447336761

Every household has to perform housework, and researchers know a lot about what predicts who does which chores, drawing

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Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Performance 041550788X, 9780415507882

Embodied Acting is an essential, pragmatic intervention in the study of how recent discoveries within cognitive science

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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters 2020952203, 9781950665792, 9781953295248

“Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.” “Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent.” “Clim

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Copy This Book!: What Data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good 9781503614314

In Copy This Book!, Paul J. Heald draws on a vast knowledge of copyright scholarship and a deep sense of irony to explai

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Big Liars: What Psychological Science Tells Us About Lying and How You Can Avoid Being Duped

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Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America [1 ed.] 1479804584, 9781479804580

Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values In a 2018 national poll, over ninet

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Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech 9780814708750

Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed

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