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Depressions. --- Economics. --- Economic crises --- theoretical explanations

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This book evaluates whether or not we can decide on the best theory of concepts by appealing to the explanatory results of cognitive science. It undertakes an in-depth analysis of different theories of concepts and of the explanations formulated in cognitive science. As a result, two reasons are provided for thinking that an appeal to cognitive science cannot help to decide on the best theory of concepts.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Cognitive Science. --- Cognitive Scientific Explanations. --- Concepts. --- Mental Representations. --- Cognitive science. --- Science --- Philosophy of mind

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Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings." Since the 1970's, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, typology, and documentary linguistics. Further, functional approaches have had a major impact outside linguistics in fields such as psychology and education, both in terms of theory and application. The main goal of functionalist approaches is to clarify the dynamic relationship between form and function (Thompson 2003:53). Functionalist perspectives have gained more ground over the past decades with more linguists resorting to functional explanations to account for linguistic structure. The authors in this volume present the current state of functional approaches to linguistic inquiry expanding our knowledge of language and linguistics.

Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) --- Linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Structural linguistics --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- Functional discourse grammar --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse and Structure. --- Functionalism. --- Language and Thought. --- Linguistics. --- Typological-Functional Explanations.

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Enchanted Calvinism's central proposition is that Ghanaian Presbyterian communities, both past and present, have become significantly more enchanted--that is, more attuned to spiritual explanations of and remedies for suffering--as they have become more integrated into capitalist modes of production. The author draws on a specific Weberian concept of religious enchantment to frame the discussion of spiritual affliction and spiritual healing within the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, particularly under the conditions of labor migration: first, in the early twentieth century during the cocoa boom in Ghana and second, at the turn of the twenty-first century in the context of the healthcare migration from Ghana to North America. Relying on extensive archival research, oral historical interviews, and participant-observation group interviews conducted in North America, Europe, and West Africa, the study provides evidence that the more these Ghanaian Calvinists became dependent on capitalist modes of production, the more enchanted their lives, and, subsequently, their church became, although in different ways within these two migrations. One striking pattern that has emerged among Ghanaian Presbyterian labor migrants in North America, for example, is a radical shift in gendered healing practices, where women have become prominent healers, while a significant number of men have become spirit-possessed. Adam Mohr is a Senior Writing Fellow in Anthropology with the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Spiritual healing --- Healing --- Ghanaians --- Akan (African people) --- Capitalism --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Religion. --- Medicine. --- Presbyterian Church of Ghana. --- Divine healing --- Faith-cure --- Faith healing --- Spiritual therapies --- Miracles --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Ethnology --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- PCG --- Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast --- Ghana Pre̳sbiterian Asafo --- Ghana Presbyterian Asafo --- Adam Mohr. --- Ghanaian Presbyterian communities. --- capitalist modes of production. --- enchanted. --- labor migration. --- remedies for suffering. --- spiritual explanations.

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Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links the recent resurgence of biological explanations for gender norms, sexual desires, and human nature in general with the current pitched battles over sexual politics. Ideas about a "hardwired" and immutable human nature are circulating at a pivotal moment in human history, he argues, one in which dramatic changes in gender roles and an unprecedented normalization of lesbian and gay relationships are challenging received notions and commonly held convictions on every front. The Trouble with Nature takes on major media sources-the New York Times, Newsweek-and widely ballyhooed scientific studies and ideas to show how journalists, scientists, and others invoke the rhetoric of science to support political positions in the absence of any real evidence. Lancaster also provides a novel and dramatic analysis of the social, historical, and political backdrop for changing discourses on "nature," including an incisive critique of the failures of queer theory to understand the social conflicts of the moment. By showing how reductivist explanations for sexual orientation lean on essentialist ideas about gender, Lancaster invites us to think more deeply and creatively about human acts and social relations.

Sex in popular culture. --- Science news. --- Pseudoscience. --- Sexual orientation --- Orientation, Sexual --- Sexual preference --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sexual reorientation programs --- Junk science --- Science --- News, Science --- Popularization of science --- Communication in science --- Journalism --- Technical writing --- Sexuality in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Physiological aspects. --- Popularization --- Sexual orientation - Physiological aspects. --- Conversion therapy --- biological explanations. --- expose. --- gay and lesbian. --- gender and sexuality. --- gender norms. --- gender roles. --- heterosexual fables. --- history of sexuality. --- human nature. --- journalists. --- lgbtq. --- men and women. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- popular culture. --- primetime sitcoms. --- science. --- scientific studies. --- scientific theories. --- scientists. --- sex. --- sexual desire. --- sexual normalization. --- sexual orientation. --- sexual politics. --- sexual relationships. --- social history. --- social relations. --- social sciences. --- textbooks.