A user's guide to thought and meaning / Ray Jackendoff ; with illustrations by Neil Cohn, Bill Griffith, and others.

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Jackendoff, Ray

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Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780199693207

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Nonfiction.

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23 153 JAC

Summary: 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

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Gifted Books	Sai University Library		Non-fiction		153 JAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			G2936

Originally published in paperback in 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.

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

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