From Whorf to Montague: Explorations in the Theory of Language

by Pieter A.M. Seuren

This book explores the relations between language, the world, the minds of individual speakers, and the collective minds of particular language communities. Pieter Seuren examines the status of abstract rule systems underlying speech and considers how much computational power may be attributed to the human mind. The book opens with chapters on the social reality of language, the ancient question of the primacy of language or thought, and the relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199682194
• ISBN13: 9780199682195
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"