The Practice of Language - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9048160537 ISBN 13: 9789048160532

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice? What do theoretical notions and models tell us about real-life language use? Are there any limits to what such notions and models can reasonably be taken to accomplish? These questions are fundamental to any serious investigation into the phenomena of human communication. The essays in this book show that philosophers and linguists of quite different brands have tended to give undue priority to their own favourite theoretical framework, and have presupposed that the descriptive scheme invoked by that framework constitutes a pattern to which any linguistic practice somehow has to conform. What unites the contributors to this volume is a critical attitude towards such essentialist aspirations. By investigating several concrete examples of this tendency - examples collected from such seemingly disparate areas as structuralism, contemporary analytic philosophy and feminist epistemology - the authors collectively manage to cast doubt on the very attempt to fit the whole of linguistic practice into a general theoretical mould.

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`The book is well written and elegantly structured. Also it subject is interesting and the figures included are suggestive. It is useful to student and postgraduate students who are interested in complex dynamic systems, as well as to all researchers specialized in complex analysis and differential equations.'
Zbl. MATH, 98:30001

From the Back Cover

This book contains substantially extended and revised versions of the best papers from the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010), held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 8-12, 2010.

Two invited papers are presented together with 39 contributions, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 full papers presented at the conference (out of 448 submissions). They reflect state-of-the-art research work that is often driven by real-world applications, thus successfully relating the academic with the industrial community. The topics covered are: databases and information systems integration, artificial intelligence and decision support systems, information systems analysis and specification, software agents and internet computing, and human-computer interaction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9048160537
• ISBN 13: 9789048160532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279
• Editor: Gustafsson M., Hertzberg L.