Jackendoff, Ray, <br/><br/>
A user's guide to thought and meaning /  
Ray Jackendoff ; with illustrations by Neil Cohn, Bill Griffith, and others.  
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  2012 
 - xi, 274 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published in paperback in 2015.   Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. 
<br/><br/> A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199693207 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Meaning (Philosophy) <br/>Thought and thinking.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Nonfiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>153  / JAC