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Rule - Following and Meaning
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Rule - Following and MeaningRule - Following and Meaning

Rule-Following and Meaning addresses issues of central importance to contemporary work in analytic philosophy of mind, language, and metaphysics, and there is no other anthology on these issues that takes account of Kripke's work and the ensuing literature.


 
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The Structure of Magic - A Book About Language and Therapy
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The Structure of Magic - A Book About Language and TherapyThe Structure of Magic - A Book About Language and Therapy

These seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I describes the Meta Model, a framework for comprehending the structure of language; Volume II applies NLP theory to nonverbal communication.
 
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Metaphor and Reality
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Metaphor and RealityMetaphor and Reality

"The sole excuse which a man can have for writing," says Rémy de Gourmont, "is to unveil for others the sort of world which mirrors itself in his individual glass." No doubt if we cared to quibble we could point to other and lesser excuses for writing, such as are assumed by makers of directories, committee reports, and literary excitants or sedatives. What the eminent critic had in mind, however, was the kind of writing which, whatever its particular incentives and aims, reveals the accents of a man speaking to fellow men. 
 
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Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations - A Comprehensive Bibliography
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Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations - A Comprehensive BibliographyCase, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations - A Comprehensive Bibliography

This is the first of a series of six books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European. The This bibliography presents the many dimensions involved in reserch into case and case-related phenomena. This includes morphological case markers and cross-constituent (semantic and grammatical) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various conterparts; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization; and pragmatic and textual considerations.
 
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Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning - Linguistic Practice and Politics
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Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning - Linguistic Practice and PoliticsGender, Sexuality, and Meaning - Linguistic Practice and Politics

This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possibilities; attention to language deepens understanding of gender and sexuality, including connections to ethnicity, class, race, and other dimensions of social identity and inequality.
 
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