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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Language, from a Biological Point of View
Subtitle: Current Issues in Biolinguistics
Edited By: Cedric Boeckx
María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz
José-Luis Mendívil-Giró
Description:

The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought. Following a certain tradition, we call this attempt at a synthesis “biolinguistics.” The nine chapters (grouped into three parts: Language and Cognition, Language and the Brain, and Language and the Species) offer a comprehensive overview of issues at the forefront of biolinguistic research, such as language structure; language development; linguistic change and variation; language disorders and language processing; the cognitive, neural and genetic basis of linguistic knowledge; or the evolution of the Faculty of Language. Each contribution highlights exciting prospects for the field, but they also point to significant obstacles along the way. The main conclusion is that the age of theoretical exclusivity in Linguistics, much like the age of theoretical specificity, will have to end if interdisciplinarity is to reign and if biolinguistics is to flourish.

Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics
Cognitive Science

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Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9781443837811
Pages: 400
Prices: U.K. £ 49.99
U.S. $ 74.99