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The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood.Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary development, present throughout the primate clade and perhaps beyond, but self-awareness is a product of the sharing of social models, something only humans appear to do. The self of which we are aware is not something innate within us, it is a model of our self produced as a response to the models of us offered to us by other people. Edwardes proposes that human construction of selfhood involves seven different types of self. All but one of them are internally generated models, and the only non-model, the actual self, is completely hidden from conscious awareness. We rely on others to tell us about our self, and even to let us know we are a self.

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Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of linguistics ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out both the foundational assumptions set during the second half of the last century and the unfolding shifts in perspective in which more functionalist perspectives are explored. The opening chapter lays out the philosophical background in preparation for the papers that follow, which demon

Philosophy of language --- Linguistics --- Philosophy. --- Language and languages --- Philosophy

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Relevance drives our actions and channels our attention; it shapes how we make sense of the world and communicate with each other. Irrelevance spreads a twilight which blurs the line between information we do not want to access and information we cannot access. In disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, the information sciences and linguistics, "relevance" has been proposed as a key concept. This book is the first to bring together the often unrelated traditions. Researchers from different fields discuss relevance and relate it to the challenges of "irrelevance", which have so far been neglected despite their significance for our chances of making well-informed decisions and understanding others. The contributions focus on theoretical and conceptual questions, on specific factors and fields, and on practical and political implications of relevance and irrelevance as forces which are even stronger when they remain in the background.

Relevance. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Pertinence --- Relevancy --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy --- Relevance --- Pragmatics --- E-books --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Cognitive Science. --- Communication. --- Phenomenology. --- Relevance Theory. --- Social Theory.

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Leading scholars discuss the development and application of theories of causation and explanation, offering a state-of-the-art view of current work on these two topics.

Cognitive psychology --- Philosophy of language --- Mathematical logic --- Theory of knowledge --- Causation --- Explanation --- Causation. --- Explanation. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Speculative Philosophy --- Explanation (Philosophy) --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- PHILOSOPHY/General

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The now-classic 'Metaphors We Live By' changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"--metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Metaphor. --- Truth. --- enge 837.5 --- Engels - semantiek, homoniemen, synoniemen --- -Metaphor --- Metaforen --- 316.77 --- Concepts --- Language and languages --- Truth --- Conviction --- Parabole --- Concept formation --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- 316.77 Communicatiesociologie --- Communicatiesociologie --- Philosophy --- Concepts. --- Philosophy. --- taalkunde --- Engels --- Belief and doubt --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Abstraction --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Perception --- Psychology --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Metaforen. --- Metaphor --- Langage et langues --- Métaphore --- Vérité --- Philosophie --- #KVHA:Algemene taalkunde --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- METAPHOR --- LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES --- SEMANTICS --- PHILOSOPHY