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Language, Biology and Cognition A Critical Perspective
This book examines the relationship between human language and biology in order to determine whether the biological foundations of language can offer...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the readers to the core arguments that are to show that the transitions from biology to language and then from language to...
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Public Voices: The Media Mirror
This chapter continues the exploration of society’s views about female beauty and ageing as represented through lifestyle news articles. Using...
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Attention and Consciousness
The human is an animal that refers to itself as an “I”. According to Descartes, the subject is an axiom, and everything else follows from this...
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From Konrad Lorenz’s “Phylogenetic Apriorism” to the Birth of Evolutionary Epistemology
This paper discusses the role that Konrad Lorenz, already known as the founding father of comparative ethology, played from the 1940s in the birth...
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Noam Chomsky and the History of Ideas
Noam Chomsky incarnates rationalism in the study of language like no other man has or does in man’s history, it seems to me. I will attempt to...
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From Complementarity to Semiosis
Giorgio Prodi poses a fundamental philosophical problem: how was the emergence of immaterial meaning possible within the world of material things? In...
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Chomsky and Biolinguistics
This chapter describes the origin of contemporary biolinguistics. In particular, the authors discuss the philosophical and linguistic presuppositions...
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Key Concepts and Approaches in Studies of Masculinity
Over recent decades there has been a rapid expansion in studies of men and masculinities in theoretical, empirical, and policy domains. The original...
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Metaphor
In Chapters 3 and 4 we hinted that metaphor may be...
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Meridel Le Sueur’s Salute to Spring: “A Movement Up Which All Are Moving”
A belief shared by all of the writers examined thus far is the notion that the lower- and working classes could not adequately represent themselves...
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Bibliography on Optimality Theory and Language Change
The following is an attempt at a comprehensive listing of works treating language change from an Optimality-Theoretic perspective, although given the...