Un home sol es planta nu davant del tribunal de la ciutat.Esta en joc la seva vida. Esta en joc la veritat.Metaforicament despullat, Socrates haura de desmuntar,una per una, les imputacions dels seus detractors. Lacusende no creure en els deus i de corrompre els joves amb lesseves disquisicions estrafolaries.La Defensa de Socrates es lapologia dun lliurepensador,es la lluita de lindividu enfront el poder i el gruixde la massa, un text antic mes vigent que mai.Just un segle despres de la traduccio de Joan Crexells, EloiCreus ens regala aquest nou Socrates.

Dentro de la crítica general a la moderna era digital que viene formulando en los últimos años el neurobiólogo Lamberto Maffei, y plasmada de momento en sus obras "Alabanza de la lentitud" y "Elogio de la rebeldia" (ambas publicadas en esta coleccion), el autor centra ahora el foco en nuestro medio de expresion por excelencia tanto verbalmente como por escrito. En este "Elogio de la palabra", Maffei recuerda que es nuestra forma de expresarnos lo que nos distingue como humanos y que es la palabra la herramienta que nos sirve para comunicarnos tanto con los otros como con nosotros mismos, a la vez que el elemento vertebrador de la civilizacion. El creciente y compulsivo sometimiento a los 'smartphones' y a las redes sociales, la omnipresencia de internet y de otros medios de comunicacion digitales, sin embargo, parece estar propiciando una creciente depreciacion de la palabra, asi como de la conversacion, que socava los fundamentos mismos de nuestra naturaleza.Traduccion de Pepa LinaresDentro de la crítica general a la moderna era digital que viene formulando en los últimos años el neurobiólogo Lamberto Maffei, y plasmada de momento en sus obras "Alabanza de la lentitud" y "Elogio de la rebeldia" (ambas publicadas en esta coleccion), el autor centra ahora el foco en nuestro medio de expresion por excelencia tanto verbalmente como por escrito. En este "Elogio de la palabra", Maffei recuerda que es nuestra forma de expresarnos lo que nos distingue como humanos y que es la palabra la herramienta que nos sirve para comunicarnos tanto con los otros como con nosotros mismos, a la vez que el elemento vertebrador de la civilizacion. El creciente y compulsivo sometimiento a los 'smartphones' y a las redes sociales, la omnipresencia de internet y de otros medios de comunicacion digitales, sin embargo, parece estar propiciando una creciente depreciacion de la palabra, asi como de la conversacion, que socava los fundamentos mismos de nuestra naturaleza.Traduccion de Pepa Linares

Echeverría nos ofrece una nueva interpretación de lo que significa ser humano, no desde los antiguos parámetros que nos han servido de base para observar la vida, sino desde fuera de ellos. Se trata de una propuesta posmoderna y posmetafisica que ha recibido la influencia de autores como Maturana, Flores, Searle, Graves, Austin y Heidegger, y se basa en la tesis de que todo fenomeno social es un fenomeno linguistico.

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En este libro se analiza la forma correcta, recomendada o aceptada de utilizar diversas voces y expresiones de nuestro idioma. La obra contiene 191 entradas organizadas en orden alfabético, y tiene el objetivo de proporcionar al lector la informacion necesaria para que este en posibilidad de tomar decisiones respecto de la forma en que se expresa. ¿Debemos llamar español o castellano al idioma que hablamos? ¿Es correcto llamar dialectos a las lenguas indigenas? ¿Cuando debe utilizarse la forma elegido y cuando electo? ¿Debemos decir la presidente o la presidenta? ¿Inclusive es sinonimo de incluso? ¿Debe decirse media tonta o medio tonta? Si hemos ofendido a alguien, ¿debemos pedir disculpas u ofrecer disculpas? ¿Se dice faltar al respeto o faltar el respeto? ¿Cuando debe utilizarse vinimos y cuando venimos? Aqui encontrara usted las respuestas a estas y muchas otras interrogantes que posiblemente se haya hecho en diferentes momentos en los que, al momento de hablar o escribir, ha tenido dudas sobre como decir apropiadamente lo que quiere expresar.

With chapters written by leading international scholars in the field, this is an authoritative reference guide for researchers working in the Philosophy of Language today. "The Continuum Companion to Philosophy of Language" offers the definitive guide to contemporary philosophy of language. The book covers all the fundamental questions asked by the philosophy of language - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Ten specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, the exciting new directions the field is taking. The Companion explores issues pertaining to the nature of language, form semantics, theories of meaning, reference, intensional contexts, context-dependence, pragmatics, the normativity of language, analyticity, a priority and modality.Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a detailed list of resources and a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential reference tool for anyone working in the philosophy of language. "The Continuum Companions" series is a major series of single volume companions to key research fields in the humanities aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and libraries. Each companion offers a comprehensive reference resource giving an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. A distinctive feature of the series is that each companion provides practical guidance on advanced study and research in the field, including research methods and subject-specific resources.

Destructeurs ou bienfaisants, libérateurs ou aliénants, les mots comptent autant que les actes. C'est pourquoi Michel Lacroix nous propose une éthique du langage, à pratiquer en famille, entre am

L'étude des différentes manières de ne pas lire un livre, des situations délicates où l'on se retrouve quand il faut en parler et des moyens à mettre en œuvre pour se sortir d'affaire montre que, con

JOSE MARIA VALVERDE: PENSAMENT, POESIA, LLENGUATGE es un libro del autor ;PUEO DOMING editado por EDICIONS A PETICIO SL. JOSE MARIA VALVERDE: PENSAMENT, POESIA, LLENGUATGE tiene un código de ISBN 978-84-9984-633-0 y consta de 276 Paginas.

Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language.Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.

Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are independent generative components, and in which knowledge of language consists of a repertoire of stored structures. Some of these structures, such as words and morphemes, are idiosyncratic mappings between phonology, syntax, and meaning; some, such as idioms, attach meaning to larger syntactic structures; other structures are purely syntactic or morphosyntactic; and yet others are pieces of meaning with no syntactic or phonological form. The Parallel Architecture also seeks to explain and understand how language is integrated with human cognition, particularly with vision. Professor Jackendoff examines inherently meaningful syntactic constructions, incorporating insights from Construction Grammar; and he looks at how aspects of meaning can be unexpressed but nevertheless understood, integrating approaches from Generative Lexicon theory. A recurring focus is the balance in grammar between idiosyncrasy, regularity, and semiregularity. The chapters cover a wide range of phenomena, from well-studied domains such as the mass-count distinction, event structure, resultatives, and noun-noun compounds, to offbeat aspects of English grammar such as the time-away construction (We're twistin' the night away), contrastive focus reduplication (Do you LIKE-him-like him?) and the noun-preposition-noun construction (week after week). Ray Jackendoff draws on work in a wide range of fields, including linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy. His writing combines depth of thought with clarity and wit. Meaning and the Lexicon will be read and enjoyed by linguists of all theoretical persuasions, and will be of great interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers, and anyone interested in how language operates in the mind, brain, and human communication.

"A lively and well constructed read that bravely tackles head-on the tough question of where language came from. Corballis intriguingly concludes that this unique human property has gestural rather than vocal origins; and along the way he explores numerous fascinating byways that make this a must read for everyone interested in how humans became the extraordinary creatures they are."--Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History, author of "Extinct Humans and The Fossil Trail" "Michael Corballis has accomplished a Herculean task. Reviewing and synthesizing data from a range of disciplines, he has woven it all into a book that is at once enjoyable and easy to read and yet faithful to the complexity of the subject matter. While this is admittedly a provocative work, the author has marshaled considerable evidence in support of his thesis. Indeed, he has done all of us a great service by raising the level of discussion surrounding this controversial topic. This is no small accomplishment."--Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico, General Editor, "Evolution of Communication" "A fascinating journey along the evolutionary path that 'converted us from wild gesticulators to smooth talkers.' On the path we pass our ape-like ancestors, the change to bipedalism, increase in brain size, gestures, the anatomical requirements for vocalization, and finally the spoken language."--Lewis Wolpert, University College London