The work of Bach and Harnish represents an able attempt by a philosopher and a linguist respectively to restore some sorely needed naturalistic assumptions to the study of linguistic communication
This volume presents a collection of 23 papers by renowned linguists on current research in the field of theoretical linguistics. The book focuses on linguistic theory and metatheory, and on fundamental concepts and assumptions of modern linguistics.
The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution
Focusing on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers, this book traces the two cultures and their interactions from 1680, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when the Cherokees first signed a treaty with the United States. Hatley retrieves the unfamiliar dimensions of a world in which Native Americans were at the center of Southern geopolitics and in which radically different social assumptions about the obligations of power, the place of women, and the use of the land fed the formative cultural psychology of the colonial South.
This book seeks to build on the fascination that intercultural communication naturally holds for everyone. The United States is increasingly diverse in a cultural sense. We include numerous case illustrations of communication difficulties encountered because the participants in a communication situation did not share certain cultural assumptions. Many of us have experiencedthe difficulties of communicating effectively with an "unalike" other person, perhaps even a friend or a partner.
PARKINSON'S LAWTo the very young, to school-teachers, as also to those who compile textbooks about constitutional history, politics, and current affairs the world is a more or less rational place. They visualize the election of representatives, freely chosen from among those the people trust. They picture the process by which the wisest and best of these become ministers of state. They imagine how captains of industry, freely elected by shareholders, choose for managerial responsibility those who have proved their ability in a humbler role. Books exist in which assumptions such as these are boldly stated or tacidy implied.
