The Language Game

Author : Morten H. Christiansen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541674979
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language Game written by Morten H. Christiansen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity—and one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. Language isn’t about hardwired grammars but about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the only requirement being a desire to understand and be understood. From this new vantage point, Christiansen and Chater find compelling solutions to major mysteries like the origins of languages and how language learning is possible, and to long-running debates such as whether having two words for “blue” changes what we see. In the end, they show that the only real constraint on communication is our imagination.

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046509449X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of the Game written by Laurent Dubois and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the 2018 World Cup, a lively and lyrical guide to appreciating the drama of soccer Soccer is not only the world's most popular sport; it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. The Language of the Game is a passionate and engaging introduction to soccer's history, tactics, and human drama. Profiling soccer's full cast of characters--goalies and position players, referees and managers, commentators and fans--historian and soccer scholar Laurent Dubois describes how the game's low scores, relentless motion, and spectacular individual performances combine to turn each match into a unique and unpredictable story. He also shows how soccer's global reach makes it an unparalleled theater for nationalism, international conflict, and human interconnectedness. Filled with perceptive insights and stories both legendary and little known, The Language of the Game is a rewarding read for anyone seeking to understand soccer better.

Author : Robin Clark
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549182
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaningful Games written by Robin Clark and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging introduction to the use of game theory to study lingistic meaning. In Meaningful Games, Robin Clark explains in an accessible manner the usefulness of game theory in thinking about a wide range of issues in linguistics. Clark argues that we use grammar strategically to signal our intended meanings: our choices as speaker are conditioned by what choices the hearer will make interpreting what we say. Game theory—according to which the outcome of a decision depends on the choices of others—provides a formal system that allows us to develop theories about the kind of decision making that is crucial to understanding linguistic behavior. Clark argues the only way to understand meaning is to grapple with its social nature—that it is the social that gives content to our mental lives. Game theory gives us a framework for working out these ideas. The resulting theory of use will allow us to account for many aspects of linguistic meaning, and the grammar itself can be simplified. The results are nevertheless precise and subject to empirical testing. Meaningful Games offers an engaging and accessible introduction to game theory and the study of linguistic meaning. No knowledge of mathematics beyond simple algebra is required; formal definitions appear in special boxes outside the main text. The book includes an extended argument in favor of the social basis of meaning; a brief introduction to game theory, with a focus on coordination games and cooperation; discussions of common knowledge and games of partial information; models of games for pronouns and politeness; and the development of a system of social coordination of reference.

Author : Hakan Seyalioglu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999870013
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialect written by Hakan Seyalioglu and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ewandro Magalhaes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781081899479
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language Game written by Ewandro Magalhaes and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The door to the booth has been opened. Come on in. Make yourself comfortable. Put on the headset. Listen to the voices. Contemplate the gestures through the booth window. Let yourself be the interpreter. You will come to see communication in a different light. Using your imagination, you may be surprised to see reflected in the glass a familiar face looking back at you. Maybe you will even hear, above it all, the unmistakable sound of your own voice.

Author : Keith Gilyard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136850708
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True to the Language Game written by Keith Gilyard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In True to the Language Game, Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains Gilyard’s most relevant scholarly contributions to deliberations about linguistic diversity, cultural identity, critical literacy, writing instruction, literary texts, and popular culture. The volume also features contemporary treatises on such timely topics as "students’ right to their own language," code-switching pedagogy, and political discourse surrounding the rise of Barack Obama. Gilyard weaves together serious analysis, theoretical work, policy discussions, and personal reflections on the interplay of language, literacy, and social justice to make True to the Language Game essential reading for students and scholars in rhetorical studies, composition studies, applied linguistics, and education.

Author : Mary-John Mananzan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111352536
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "Language game" of confessing one's belief written by Mary-John Mananzan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482014
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Talmud's Theological Language-Game written by Eugene B. Borowitz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.

Author : Myra King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Games written by Myra King and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Steinberg
Publisher : Agincourt, Ont. : Dominie Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887510175
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games Language People Play written by Jerry Steinberg and published by Agincourt, Ont. : Dominie Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning a new language can be very demanding, but it can also be good fun, and in between the hard work of language acquisition there are opportunities for breaks from the regular classroom routine where what has been learned is put to rewarding and practical use. Games Language People Play provides teachers with a variety of language games to make the teaching and learning of a new language an occasion for enjoyable competitiveness. There are 110 games in all, ranging in level from Beginners to Advanced. Each game carries an indication of the language skill or combination of skills being employed -- reading, writing, listening, speaking -- and the optimal group size, from as few as 10 students to games suitable for classes of unlimited size. The game's instructional objective -- for example, vocabulary expansion -- the materials needed, a full description and additional suggestions are all provided, with all that remains being for you and your class to enjoy the wonderfully creative ideas that Jerry Steinberg has put into book form for you. Originally published more than 20 years ago, Games Language People Play has continued to delight teachers and students of English every year since then.