TY - GEN AU - Jackendoff, Ray, AU - Cohn, Neil, AU - Griffith, Bill, TI - A user's guide to thought and meaning / SN - 9780199693207 U1 - 153 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Meaning (Philosophy) KW - Thought and thinking KW - Nonfiction N1 - Originally published in paperback in 2015.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index N2 - 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 ER -