Re-Examining Language Testing: A Philosophical and Social Inquiry
ISBN: 9781138774698 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016 Re-examining Language Testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language testing and assessment. The discussion is framed within the philosophical and social beliefs that have forged the practices endemic in language education and policy today. From historical and cultural perspectives, Glenn Fulcher considers the evolution of language assessment, and contrasting claims made about the nature of language and human communication, how we acquire knowledge of language abilities, and the ethics of test use. ...Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016 Re-examining Language Testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language ... |
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Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism
ISBN: 9781472591401 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical...
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold ...
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Satirische Sprache und Sprachreflexion
ISBN: 9783110408164 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Buch beschreibt die Stellung Grimmelshausens zum sprachpatriotischen Diskurs des 17. Jh. In der Analyse des Diskurses werden diskurskonnektive Elemente beschrieben und fur die Interpretation des Traktates "Teutscher Michel" fruchtbar gemacht. Im Anschluss wird Grimmelshausens satirische Auseinandersetzung mit dem sprachpatriotischen Diskurs und dem Sprachverhalten seiner Zeitgenossen nachgezeichnet. Das Buch beschreibt die Stellung Grimmelshausens zum sprachpatriotischen Diskurs des 17. Jh. In der Analyse des Diskurses werden diskurskonnektive ... |
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628,96 zł |
Faux Amis and Key Words: A Dictionary-Guide to French Life and Language Through Lookalikes and Confusables
ISBN: 9781474247177 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation, Application
ISBN: 9780190260743 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term "emerging media" responds to the "big data" now available as a result of the larger role digital media play in everyday life, as well as the notion of "emergence" that has grown across the architecture of science and technology over the last two decades with increasing imbrication. The permeation of everyday life by emerging media is evident, ubiquitous, and destined to accelerate. No longer are images, institutions, social networks, thoughts, acts of communication, emotions and speech-the "media" by means of which we express ourselves in daily life-linked to clearly demarcated,...
The term "emerging media" responds to the "big data" now available as a result of the larger role digital media play in everyday life, as well as the ...
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Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation, Application
ISBN: 9780190260750 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term "emerging media" responds to the "big data" now available as a result of the larger role digital media play in everyday life, as well as the notion of "emergence" that has grown across the architecture of science and technology over the last two decades with increasing imbrication. The permeation of everyday life by emerging media is evident, ubiquitous, and destined to accelerate. No longer are images, institutions, social networks, thoughts, acts of communication, emotions and speech-the "media" by means of which we express ourselves in daily life-linked to clearly demarcated,...
The term "emerging media" responds to the "big data" now available as a result of the larger role digital media play in everyday life, as well as the ...
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Quine and His Place in History
ISBN: 9781137472502 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context.
Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars ...
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Affectivity and Philosophy After Spinoza and Nietzsche: Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect
ISBN: 9781137486059 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect.
Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and...
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Lacanian Antiphilosophy and the Problem of Anxiety: An Uncanny Little Object
ISBN: 9781137513526 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The emotional life of any human being can be a confusing thing. For most of us, an everyday, common sense understanding of emotional life routinely compares and contrasts the experiences of anxiety and fear, as if the two emotions are cut from the same cloth. Similarly, nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers often conflated the emotions, conceiving of anxiety as a kind of objectless fear, or a lurking dread. In this book, Brian Robertson challenges those familiar lines of thinking through a close and innovative reading of Jacques Lacan's recently translated Anxiety Seminar. What would...
The emotional life of any human being can be a confusing thing. For most of us, an everyday, common sense understanding of emotional life routinely co...
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427,02 zł |
Re-Examining Language Testing: A Philosophical and Social Inquiry
ISBN: 9781138774704 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Re-examining Language Testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language testing and assessment. The discussion is framed within the philosophical and social beliefs that have forged the practices endemic in language education and policy today. From historical and cultural perspectives, Glenn Fulcher considers the evolution of language assessment, and contrasting claims made about the nature of language and human communication, how we acquire knowledge of language abilities, and the ethics of test use. The book investigates why societies use tests, and the values... Re-examining Language Testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language testing and assessment. The discussion is framed within the phil... |
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217,41 zł |
The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy
ISBN: 9781474245050 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic themes from Indian philosophy for over 40 years. This collection of his most important writings, introduces his work and presents new ways of using Indian classical thought to approach and understand Western philosophy. By expanding, reinterpreting and reclassifying concepts and views of Indian philosophers, Shaw applies them to the main issues and theories discussed in contemporary philosophy of language and epistemology. Carefully... One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on anal... |
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Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle
ISBN: 9781849352420 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics." Slavoj i ek, author of "Living in the End Times" "From its thought-provoking Introduction though its energizing accounts of the tensions underlying our most prized concepts, "Keywords for Radicals "will be indispensable to any scholar or activist who is serious about critique and change." Stephen Duncombe, editor of "Cultural Resistance Reader" In "Keywords "(1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" that reflected the vast... "An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical po... |
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Madness, Religion, and the Limits of Reason
ISBN: 9789187843242 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea of a limit of reason, a measure that defines reason and that it must not overstep, has been a constitutive part of philosophy since its beginnings in Greek thought. Placing itself in opposition to the madness of hubris, the excesses of tragedy, and the stories of religion and myth, philosophy expels its others just as much as it thrives on them. It begins and ends at the limit; it is drawn towards its outside, and exists as a perpetual attempt to find a line of demarcation that always ends up passing through its interior.The present collection analyzes the phenomenon of limit and...
The idea of a limit of reason, a measure that defines reason and that it must not overstep, has been a constitutive part of philosophy since its begin...
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Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780198777649 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilization without language? Such were the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates on the joint evolution of language, mind, and culture. Language and Enlightenment highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. While focusing on the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great, Avi Lifschitz situates the Berlin debates within a larger temporal and geographical framework. He argues that awareness of the...
What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilization without language? Such were the que...
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Action, Decision-Making and Forms of Life
ISBN: 9783110472882 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is exceptional because it applies the notion of foms of life to the context of human action. It provides answers to the following questions: Why do we act in a specific way? Why do we make particular decisions? Does one's form of life and language games determine our actions and decisions? Wittgenstein proposes a holistic method which enables us to give coherent answers to these questions. To answer the question of the contents of actions and decisions we have to explain how we have institutionalized these actions or decisions. To this aim we shall reveal the frame within which... The book is exceptional because it applies the notion of foms of life to the context of human action. It provides answers to the following question... |
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Inferences with Ignorance: Logics of Questions
ISBN: 9788024631813 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inferences with Ignorance focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as part of a logical apparatus, Michal Pelis also emphasizes the role of question-asking in communication. The book presents options for formalizing questions using sets of -direct answers, - demonstrates where questions are used in inferences, and explores asking questions and seeking answers as important components of everyday communication, proposing ways of using questions within a formal system that...
Inferences with Ignorance focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to sta...
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Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning
ISBN: 9781349442591 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.
In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of...
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Critical Theory and Political Engagement: From May '68 to the Arab Spring
ISBN: 9781349324972 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely study, Pawling argues for a renewal of the 'politics of intellectual life', calling for an engaged critical theory written in the spirit of May 1968, as exemplified in the works of figures such as Sartre, Derrida, Badiou, Jameson and Said.
In this timely study, Pawling argues for a renewal of the 'politics of intellectual life', calling for an engaged critical theory written in the spiri...
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J. L. Austin on Language
ISBN: 9781349460786 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things we do with words, and with the philosophical insights he believed could be gained by closely examining the uses of words by non-philosophers.
Looking at the work of J.L. Austin, who subjected language to a close and intense analysis, this book deals with his examination of the various things...
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Semantic Under-Determinacy and Communication
ISBN: 9781349485345 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matter, this book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by seeking an answer to the questions of how it can be explained, and how communication is possible despite it.
Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matter, ...
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194,08 zł |