The Language Animal : : The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity /

The Language Animal : : The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity / / Charles Taylor.

In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. For ce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Taylor, Charles,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. Language as Constitutive
  • 1. Designative and Constitutive Views
  • 2. How Language Grows
  • 3. Beyond Information Encoding
  • Part II. From Descriptive to Constitutive
  • 4. The Hobbes - Locke - Condillac Theory
  • 5. The Figuring Dimension of Language
  • 6. Constitution 1
  • 7. Constitution 2
  • Part III. Further Applications
  • 8. How Narrative Makes Meaning
  • 9. The Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Index

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