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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning (Hardcover)
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Hailed as a "masterpiece" (Nature) and as "the most important book
in the sciences of language to have appeared in many years" (Steven
Pinker), Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of Language was widely
acclaimed as a landmark work of scholarship that radically
overturned our understanding of how language, the brain, and
perception intermesh.
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is Jackendoff's most
important book since his groundbreaking Foundations of Language.
Written with an informality that belies the originality of its
insights, it presents a radical new account of the relation between
language, meaning, rationality, perception, consciousness, and
thought, and, extraordinarily, does this in terms a non-specialist
will grasp with ease. Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages
and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. Finding
meanings to be more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly
given credit for, 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? He shows that the organization of language, thought,
and perception does not look much like the way we experience
things, and that only a small part of what the brain does is
conscious. He concludes that thought and meaning must be almost
completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious
thought--which we prize as setting us apart from the animals--in
fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality
amounts to intuition enhanced by language.
Ray Jackendoff's profound and arresting account will appeal to
everyone interested in the workings of the mind, in how language
links to the world, and in what understanding these means for the
way we experience our lives.
Acclaim for Foundations of Language:
"A book that deserves to be read and reread by anyone seriously
interested in the state of the art of research on language."
--American Scientist
"A dazzling combination of theory-building and factual
integration. The result is a compelling new view of language and
its place in the natural world."
--Steven Pinker, author of The Language of Instinct and Words and
Rules
"A masterpiece. . . . The book deserves to be the reference point
for all future theorizing about the language faculty and its
interconnections."
--Frederick J. Newmeyer, past president of the Linguistic Society
of America
"This book has the potential to reorient linguistics more
decisively than any book since Syntactic Structures shook the
discipline almost half a century ago."
--Robbins Burling, Language in Society
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