The Limitations of Language

Terence Moore, Chris Carling (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

1988 | 1988 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-37153-4 (ISBN)

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This book explores the relation between language and our senses and emotions, taking readers into domains as diverse as wine-tasting, marriage guidance counselling, medical training and face recognition. The authors suggest that language is capable of both confusing and clarifying.

Part 1 The limits of language: changing perspectives; maps and languages; languages and maps; the public and the private - a difficult balancing act; secret reference - a grand illusion; words and things - a second secret reference; convergence; convergence and clarity; taking time to understand; private uncertainty, public confusion; language on automatic pilot; language solidarity. Part 2 Language, sense and emotion: seeing faces; when a face really matters; educating the senses; talking about tasting - the language of wine; wine and words - an empirical approach; feeling we understand; language and emotion. Part 3 The language of reflection: taking part and standing back; telling stories - a special case of observer language; telling stories and telling the truth.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.9.1988
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 180 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-333-37153-4 / 0333371534
ISBN-13	978-0-333-37153-4 / 9780333371534
Zustand	Neuware