※超萌又搞笑的圖像小說系列「Tig and Lily」※只要有心，人人都可以是隻老虎Tig是一隻自以為老虎的貓咪，當他誤闖進了動物園的老虎園區時，發現這根本就是他心中的家！這時一隻大老虎Lily出現，不管怎麼好說歹說就是沒辦法請Tig離開，甚至Lily被Tig挑戰到開始懷疑自己是不是隻老虎!? 直到Tig碰到了真正兇猛的老虎...... Lions, Tigers, and . . . a house cat?! Oh my! Life at the zoo gets complicated when a tiger finds out she as a new roommate. A purr-fect graphic chapter book series!What makes a tiger, a tiger? Is it the stripes? The roar? This is something that Lily, the tiger at the local zoo, has never had to worry about -- until she meets the fiercest animal of them all . . . her new roommate. Tig might look like a house cat, might sound like a house cat, but Tig knows he is a Tiger.The competition is on as these two cats figure out what it means to be a Tiger . . . and a friend.
How meaning works―from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music―and how meaning is connected to truth.We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial expressions, hand gestures, and other methods. Animals, too, can get their meanings across without words. In What It All Means, linguist Philippe Schlenker explains how meaning works, from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music. He shows that these extraordinarily diverse types of meaning can be studied and compared within a unified approach―one in which the notion of truth plays a central role. “It’s just semantics” is often said dismissively. But Schlenker shows that semantics―the study of meaning―is an unsung success of modern linguistics, a way to investigate some of the deepest questions about human nature using tools from the empirical a
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