Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary StudiesThe border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. W
In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of langua
Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles’s A Touch of Evil: “What does it matter what you say about other people?” The author ponders the question: What does it matter wha
Eleazar Meletinsky considers myth the "prehistory" phase of literature. In "The Poetics of Myth, " he explores the mythological inheritance of specific images, myth as a form of oral literature, and t
Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis.Among the 10 linguistic and
Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis.<
If Walter Benjamin (with an irony that belies his seemingly tragic life) is now recognized as one of the century's most important writers, reading him is no easy matter. Benjamin opens one of his most
Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is
"For several years," write the editors of What's Left of Theory, "a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far
Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take plac
Hardwick (classical studies, Open U.) examines the literary and cultural environment underlying the various kinds of translation faithful, imitation, adaptation, and version discussing the extent to
The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate thefield of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fillsin a key part of the
This concise and affordable anthology is designed for use as a textbook in both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of language. It aims to provide a core of essential primary sources and
In their first three years of life babies face the most complex learning endeavor they will ever undertake as human beings: They learn to talk. Now, as researchers make new forays into the mystery of
Kathryn Crameri reveals some of the complex responses of writers and literary critics to the new possibilities for the expression of Catalan identities which resulted from Spain's transition from dict
Learning Japanese is a challenge. And, as many students find out, memorizing sentence patterns, vocabulary, and lists of kanji doesn't necessarily make it easy to communicate with Japanese people. Bar
How can the meaning of language be represented by formal logic? Similar research regarding the semantics of natural language has suggested that standard, 'classical' logical systems must be extended t
Riley (English and American studies, U. of East Anglia) investigates why the requirement to be something-or-other should be so hard to satisfy in a manner that is convincing to its subject. She conclu
