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Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge

Autor: Piet Van Sterkenburg

Número de Páginas: 378

Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003 in Prague to focus on four major topics which play an important role in today’s linguistic debate: 1. Typology, 2. Endangered Languages, 3. Methodology and Linguistics (including fieldwork) and 4. Language and the mind. Leading experts have introduced the four themes in their plenary lectures in the course of the congress, which served as a basis for the articles presented in the current volume. This book should be a welcome tool for all linguists wishing to find their way quickly in current developments. A CD-Rom containing the full proceedings of the Prague Congress is included.

Language

Autor: Daniel L. Everett

Número de Páginas: 356

A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. But linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms—that is, different grammar—reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety. For example, the Amazonian Pirahã put words together in ways that violate our long-held under-standing of how language works, and Pirahã grammar expresses complex ideas very differently than English grammar does. Drawing on the Wari’ language of Brazil, Everett explains that speakers of all languages, in constructing their stories, omit things that all members of the culture understand. In addition, Everett discusses how some cultures can get by without words for numbers or counting, without verbs for “to say” or “to give,”...

'No duermas, hay serpientes'

Autor: Daniel L. Everett

Número de Páginas: 401

Un misionero y filólogo aterriza en mitad de la jungla amazónica con dos objetivos: va a aprender el endiablado idioma de esa tribu casi virgen, los pirahã, a los que nadie ha conseguido entender, ni enseñar otras lenguas. Y va a traducir para ellos la Biblia y a descubrirles la fe. Así empieza una de las aventuras lingüísticas más curiosas de las que se tienen noticia: intentando aprender el idioma de los pirahã, viviendo entre ellos, tratando de desentrañar su vida y su cultura, al narrador se le caen nada menos que las tesis de Chomsky, eso de que existe una "gramática innata" para todos los seres humanos. Los pirahã no usan los números, no hablan en pasado ni en futuro, sus frases nunca tienen más de dos verbos y no relatan "tradiciones": ni dioses, ni mitos, ni los orígenes del universo. Por no tener, no tienen ni colores. Y en vez de buenas noches, dicen "no duermas, hay serpientes". Sin embargo, Everett, con su cuaderno y su grabadora, aprende pirahã, y al aprender la lengua aprende la cultura. Lo que sucede después (¿acaban todos leyendo la Biblia?) ya hay que leerlo.

El reino del lenguaje

Autor: Tom Wolfe

Número de Páginas: 161

Tom Wolfe, feroz y sagaz polemista, arremete contra las verdades absolutas del evolucionismo aplicado a la lingüística en su testamento literario. Además de un gran periodista y narrador, Tom Wolfe fue siempre un polemista fervoroso, vibrante e implacable, tal como demostró en sus diatribas contra ciertos mitos intocables del arte y la arquitectura modernos. Después de dieciséis años, el autor regresaba al ensayo con este El reino del lenguaje, que se ha convertido en su testamento literario: un texto donde clava su penetrante mirada y afilados colmillos nada menos que en la teoría de la evolución aplicada a la lingüística, cuestiona supuestas verdades absolutas y apunta contra un par de vacas sagradas separadas por un siglo. Por un lado Charles Darwin y por el otro Noam Chomsky en su faceta de lingüista, a cada uno de los cuales contrapone con su respectivo antagonista, despreciado o cuestionado por el mundo académico: el naturalista Alfred Russel Wallace, sobre cuyo destino Darwin siempre tuvo remordimientos y mala conciencia, y el antropólogo Daniel Everett, que ha pasado años conviviendo con la tribu amazónica de los pirahã y cuya teoría sobre el origen y...

Lenguaje y pensamiento

Autor: Carlos Reynoso

Número de Páginas: 418

El relativismo lingüístico sostiene la hipótesis de que la lengua determina u orienta el pensamiento. Desde sus orígenes se ha convertido en una de las mayores usinas de mitos urbanos y malentendidos de la antropología: leyendas que aseveran que los Esquimales poseen cientos de palabras para nombrar la nieve o que sostienen que los Hopi no tienen un concepto del tiempo semejante al nuestro. Este libro narra la historia del relativismo desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días y plantea una crítica radical de un movimiento que también ha sabido justificar buena parte de los nacionalismos y etnocentrismos del último siglo, desde las ideologías culturales del Tercer Reich hasta los recientes movimientos contrarios a la idea de la unidad radical del pensamiento humano.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce

Autor: Cornelis De Waal

Número de Páginas: 697

The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce provides a thorough introduction into contemporary research on the work of the American polymath and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914). Peirce's contributions to philosophy would inspire other American philosophers such as William James and John Dewey. Though most of the volume concentrates on philosophy--which chapters on ethics, aesthetics, phenomenology, logic, metaphysics, and pragmatism--attention is also given to his influence on areas such as semiotics, physics, biology, and mathematics.

Le règne du langage

Autor: Tom Wolfe

Número de Páginas: 119

" Au commencement était le verbe. " Mais l'était-il vraiment ? Tom Wolfe, le maestro des raconteurs d'histoires, enquête ici sur les origines de son principal outil de travail (et objet de passion) : la langue. Pour lui, pas de doute, c'est bien au langage – et non à l'évolution – qu'on doit le développement des sociétés et les réalisations complexes de l'humanité. D'Alfred Wallace, l'autodidacte qui fut le premier, avant Charles Darwin, à défendre la théorie de la sélection naturelle, jusqu'aux néodarwinistes contemporains menés par le linguiste Noam Chomsky et récemment pourfendus par l'anthropologue Daniel Everett, Wolfe examine comment la science a essayé, en vain, de fournir une explication à ce don de la parole. Avec un humour jubilatoire, il suit les errements secrets et grandioses du darwinisme, du temps de la Royal Academy jusqu'au MIT, et signe un petit bijou d'érudition, drôlement passionnant, d'une incroyable férocité envers l'establishment.

Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics

Autor: Margaret Thomas

Número de Páginas: 185

This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The book grounds its comparisons between the two in both historical and contemporary contexts where, broadly speaking, formalists’ focus on structural relationships and idealized linguistic data contrasts with functionalists’ commitment to analyzing real language used as a communicative tool. The book highlights key sub-varieties, proponents, and critiques of each respective approach. It concludes by comparing formalist versus functionalist contributions in three domains of linguistic research: in the analysis of specific grammatical constructions; in the study of language acquisition; and in interdisciplinary research on the origins of language. Taken together, the volume opens insight into an important tension in linguistic theory, and provides students and scholars with a more nuanced understanding of the structure of the discipline of modern linguistics.

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

Autor: Daniel L. Everett

Número de Páginas: 319

Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a riveting look into the nature of language, thought, and life itself. "Immensely interesting and deeply moving.... One of the best books I have read."—Lucy Dodwell, New Scientist A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications. The Pirahã have no counting system, no fixed terms for color, no concept of war, and no personal property. Everett was so impressed with their peaceful way of life that he eventually lost faith in the God he'd hoped to introduce to them, and instead devoted his life to the science of linguistics.

How Language Began

Autor: Daniel L. Everett

Número de Páginas: 309

A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection “Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be one of them.” — Edward O. Wilson At the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind’s most incredible creation. Deemed a “bombshell” linguist and “instant folk hero” by Tom Wolfe (Harper’s), Daniel L. Everett posits that the near- 7,000 languages that exist today are not only the product of one million years of evolution but also have allowed us to become Earth’s apex predator. Tracing 60,000 generations, Everett debunks long- held theories across a spectrum of disciplines to affi rm the idea that we are not born with an instinct for language. Woven with anecdotes of his nearly forty years of fi eldwork amongst Amazonian hunter- gatherers, this is a “completely enthralling” (Spectator) exploration of our humanity and a landmark study of what makes us human. “[An] ambitious text. . . . Everett’s amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes . . . , will help the neophyte along.”— New York Times Book Review

Genealogy of William Leverett (1773-1807) and Descendants

Autor: Erwin J. Otis , Florence Leverett Hodge

Número de Páginas: 52

Publications of the Brookline Historical Publication Society

Autor: Brookline Historical Publication Society (brookline, Mass.)

Número de Páginas: 400

An Analysis of the Early Records of Harvard College, 1636-1750

Autor: Andrew Mcfarland Davis

Número de Páginas: 32

Proceedings of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Ohio

Autor: Freemasons. Grand Lodge Of Ohio

Número de Páginas: 698

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society

Autor: Berkeley Linguistics Society

Número de Páginas: 502

The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records

Autor: Lorraine Cook White

Número de Páginas: 308

This second volume of Ms. White's serialization of the Barbour Collection of Connecticut town vital records is a transcription of the vital records of the following towns: Barkhamsted (1779-1854), Berlin (1785-1850), Bethany (1832-1853), Bethlehem (1787-1851), Bloomfield (1835-1853), and Bozrah (1786-1850). Entries are in strict alphabetical order by town, and give name, date of event, names of parents, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and specific place of residence.

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