How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his bestselling classics, The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Seven Pinker explores the profound mysteries of language. By...(展开全部)

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that listening to speech is a process of native listening because so much of it is exquisitely tailored to the requirements of the native language. Her cross-linguistic study (drawing on experimental work...(展开全部)

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that listening to speech is a process of native listening because so much of it is exquisitely tailored to the requirements of the native language. Her cross-linguistic study (drawing on experimental work...(展开全部)

This skillfully crafted work...combines acute theoretical insight, deep understanding of a wide variety of typologically different languages, and impressive lucidity. It is a wonderful and valuable achievement."--Noam Chomsky. Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implicati...(展开全部)

Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must follow rules to avoid destructive error and controversy, rules—and hence laws—are imperfect, and reason also dictates that we ough...(展开全部)

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgensteina s analysis of the notion of following a rule.

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgensteina s analysis of the notion of following a rule.

里德·哈斯廷斯（Reed Hastings） 网飞公司创始人、董事会主席、首席执行官，20《财富》杂志“年度商业人物”，《时代》周刊“全球最具影响力人物”，Hired网站“全球科技业最鼓舞人心的领导者”。1983年获得鲍登学院学士学位，1988年获得斯坦福大学计算机专业硕士学位。在此期间，曾作为和平队成员前往非洲支教。他的第一家公司Pure Software成立于1991年，于1995年上市。在以7.5亿美元出售Pure Software的同年，他联合创立了网飞，并于1999年起担任董事会主席兼首席执行官至今。作为一名杰出的企业家，他对整个娱乐业的发展与变革起到了巨大的推动作用。同时，他还是一位活跃的教育慈善家，担任过包括Dreambox Learning、KIPP和Pahara在内的多家教育机构的董事会成员，并于2020年向为有色人种学生提供高等教...(展开全部)

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched ...(展开全部)

V. N. Vološinov’s important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others. Vološinov is out to undo the old disciplinary boundaries between linguistics, rhetoric, and poetics in order to con...(展开全部)