Of Grammatology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Grammatology write by Jacques Derrida. This book was released on 2013-10-17. Of Grammatology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak's translation, which captures the richness and complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and philosophers cited in the text and makes one of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.
The Open Work
The Open Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Open Work write by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 1989. The Open Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.
The Language Instinct
The Language Instinct - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language Instinct write by Steven Pinker. This book was released on 2010-12-14. The Language Instinct available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
Expanding the Lexicon
Expanding the Lexicon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expanding the Lexicon write by Sabine Arndt-Lappe. This book was released on 2018-01-22. Expanding the Lexicon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.
The Prague School and Theories of Structure
The Prague School and Theories of Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prague School and Theories of Structure write by Martin Procházka. This book was released on 2010. The Prague School and Theories of Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first part of this volume discusses the importance of Prague Structuralism for contemporary linguistics: the phonology of N. S. Trubetzkoy, the concepts of sign and neutralization in the work of Bohumil Trnka, and his influence on the theory of functional sentence perspective. It also traces contemporary developments of structuralist methodologies in pragmatics, morphology, and lexicology. The second part focuses on the legacy of the Prague school in the theories of poetic function, rhetoric, and translation. It assesses the relevance of structuralism for the present thought of difference, social systems and history, system theories and fictions in science and literature. The book is the first volume in the series Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities.
