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Structural Linguistics

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:36:34 +0000

Structural Linguistics by Zellig S. Harris is a foundational work in descriptive linguistics that presents a set of structural methods for analyzing language scientifically. The book focuses on the logic of distributional relations as the core method of structural linguistics, providing detailed techniques for linguistic research and teaching without relying heavily on formal logic terminology. It covers phonology, segmentation, and the relations among phonologic elements, aiming to give readers a comprehensive picture of linguistic operations and elements. Harris’s approach builds on the work of Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield, emphasizing the systematic analysis of language structure through distributional patterns. Although the text is challenging, it is considered a major contribution to linguistics, offering tools for both critical control and practical application of structural linguistic methods.

Life of Petrarch

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:36:02 +0000

American Immigration

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:22:46 +0000

American Immigration BY MALDWYN ALLEN JONES (The Chicago History of American Civilization) Paperback – January 1, 1965 by MALDWYN ALLEN JONES (Author) In this book, the author analyses the actual process of immigration, an experience which was essential the same for Jamestown settlers and for Hungarian refugees. He points to the various national crises which tested the immigrant’s adjustment to life in America and shows us how the immigrant has played a particularly vital role in sectional conflicts, the westward movement, labor organization, foreign policy, and the theory and practice of democracy.

From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:19:25 +0000

From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni; Studies in Humanistic and Political Literature.

A Portrait of Aristotle

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:00:12 +0000

Midway reprint, 1979.

No Caption Needed

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:04:19 +0000

No Caption Needed – Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. In No Caption Needed, Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent circulation through an astonishing array of media, including stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web pages, tattoos, and more. Iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuasion across the political spectrum, and a crucial resource for critical reflection. Arguing against the conventional belief that visual images short-circuit rational deliberation and radical critique, Hariman and Lucaites make a bold case for the value of visual imagery in a liberal-democratic society. No Caption Needed is a compelling demonstration of photojournalism’s vital contribution to public life.

Capitalism and Freedom

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:02:42 +0000

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on.

Everything that Linguists have Always Wanted

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:25:14 +0000

Everything that Linguists have Always Wanted to Know about Logic (but were ashamed to ask). Paperback. Condition: Very Good. McCawley supplements his earlier book–which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic–with new material on the logic of conditional sentences, linguistic applications of type theory, Anil Gupta’s work on principles of identity, and the generalized quantifier approach to the logical properties of determiners.

Conversations with Picasso

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:20:45 +0000