David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such "Making Meaning" should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell syst...(展开全部)

Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier critique of scientific "objectivity" to investigate meaning as founded upon the imaginative and creative faculties. Establishing that science is an inherently normative form of know...(展开全部)

Meaning brings together some of the most significant philosophical work on linguistic representation and understanding, presenting canonical essays on core questions in the philosophy of language. This anthology includes classic articles by key figures such as Frege, Quine, Putnam, Kripke, and Davidson: and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Mark Wilson, S...(展开全部)

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such "Making Meaning" should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell syst...(展开全部)

長澤まさみ、１０代最後の写真集！ 衣装もレイアウトもヘアメイクも、すべて長澤まさみ自身がプロデュース！今まで見たことのない、まさに“素”の長澤まさみがこの写真集にはぎっしり詰まっている。 若手ナンバーワン女優・長澤まさみは、１２歳で、東宝「シンデレラ」オーディションのグランプリを獲得。その後、デビューしてからは、映画にテレビにＣＭに、さまざまなメディアで活躍を続けている。そんな彼女も、２００７年の６月３日で満２０歳。写真集の舞台は、彼女が最も行きたかった街・ロンドン。洋服とヘアメイクは、すべて自ら施し、今まで見たことのない、まさに“素”の長澤まさみが満載！！

In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works ...(展开全部)

In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began t...(展开全部)

In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works ...(展开全部)

In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began t...(展开全部)

When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics...(展开全部)