Author: K. Vossler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317829700
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Spirit of Language in Civilization
Author: K. Vossler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317829700
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317829700
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language, and Civilization
Author: Deborah Levine Gera
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199256167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"The source and nature of earliest speech and civilization are puzzles that have intrigued people for many centuries. This book explores Greek ideas on the beginnings of language, and the links between speech and civilization. It is a study of ancient Greek views on the nature of the world's first society and first language, the source of language, the development of civilization and speech, and the relation between people's level of civilization and the kind of language they use." "Discussions of later Western reflections on the origin and development of language and society, particularly during the Enlightenment, feature in the book, along with brief surveys of recent research on glottogenesis, the acquisition of language, and the beginnings of civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199256167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"The source and nature of earliest speech and civilization are puzzles that have intrigued people for many centuries. This book explores Greek ideas on the beginnings of language, and the links between speech and civilization. It is a study of ancient Greek views on the nature of the world's first society and first language, the source of language, the development of civilization and speech, and the relation between people's level of civilization and the kind of language they use." "Discussions of later Western reflections on the origin and development of language and society, particularly during the Enlightenment, feature in the book, along with brief surveys of recent research on glottogenesis, the acquisition of language, and the beginnings of civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
Time, Life, and Civilization
Author: Abir U. Igamberdiev
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781634638302
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book considers the fundamental scientific and philosophical problems of the origins of life, consciousness, language, and civilisation. It is a continuation of "Physics and Logic of Life," published by Nova Science Publishers in 2012. Whereas the previous book discussed fundamental aspects of biology, the current volume aims to analyse connections between the biological and the societal worlds, and to clarify basic principles of the genesis of social structures. The physical basis and logic of life are discussed briefly in the first two chapters; then the discussion turns to the fundamental structures that ultimately determine the nature of cognition-based societies. The emergence of life initiates a creative process that exceeds the limits of computability. Biological evolution occurs as an unfolding of functional constraints in which dynamic parameters, possessing criteria of perfection and having selective values, are established. The genetic system arises as a semiotic structure with a high combinatorial capacity for expansion and generation of new meanings in the course of individual development and evolutionary modification. Human language is a second natural semiotic system by which fundamental knowledge of the world is expressed, and which provides powerful means for its description and assimilation. The evolution of societies is a further expansion of language systems based on implementation of the structures of human self-reflection. These basic structures include the possibility of perceiving a world external to the Self and acting within it. The signification of conceptual entities is the starting point in the development of civilisations, and concrete patterns of signification determine features specific to particular human cultures. The evolutionary growth of information occurs via the open process of language games, in which interacting statements about the world determine continued increase of complexity. The universal language of music and its future role in global communication are discussed. This book is intended for theoretical biologists, sociologists, psychologists, specialists in semiotics and philosophers.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781634638302
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book considers the fundamental scientific and philosophical problems of the origins of life, consciousness, language, and civilisation. It is a continuation of "Physics and Logic of Life," published by Nova Science Publishers in 2012. Whereas the previous book discussed fundamental aspects of biology, the current volume aims to analyse connections between the biological and the societal worlds, and to clarify basic principles of the genesis of social structures. The physical basis and logic of life are discussed briefly in the first two chapters; then the discussion turns to the fundamental structures that ultimately determine the nature of cognition-based societies. The emergence of life initiates a creative process that exceeds the limits of computability. Biological evolution occurs as an unfolding of functional constraints in which dynamic parameters, possessing criteria of perfection and having selective values, are established. The genetic system arises as a semiotic structure with a high combinatorial capacity for expansion and generation of new meanings in the course of individual development and evolutionary modification. Human language is a second natural semiotic system by which fundamental knowledge of the world is expressed, and which provides powerful means for its description and assimilation. The evolution of societies is a further expansion of language systems based on implementation of the structures of human self-reflection. These basic structures include the possibility of perceiving a world external to the Self and acting within it. The signification of conceptual entities is the starting point in the development of civilisations, and concrete patterns of signification determine features specific to particular human cultures. The evolutionary growth of information occurs via the open process of language games, in which interacting statements about the world determine continued increase of complexity. The universal language of music and its future role in global communication are discussed. This book is intended for theoretical biologists, sociologists, psychologists, specialists in semiotics and philosophers.
Civilization
Author: V. F. Lenzen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
Public Opinion
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Story of Language
Author: Charles Woodward Hutson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Civilization
Author:
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Civilization and Beyond
Author: Scott Nearing
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Civilization and Beyond is a history book by Scott Nearing. Nearing was an American radical economist, educator and writer. Excerpt: "Thousands of years before the city of Rome was ringed with its six miles of stone wall, other peoples in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa were building civilizations. New techniques of excavation, identification and preservation, subsidized by an increasingly affluent human society, and developed during the past two centuries of archeological research have provided the needed means and manpower. The result is an imposing number of long buried building sites with their accompanying artifacts. Still more important are the records written in long forgotten languages on stone, clay tablets, metal, wood and paper. These remnants and records, left by extinguished civilizations, do not tell us all we wish to know, but they do provide the materials which enable us to reconstruct, at least in part, the lives of our civilized predecessors."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Civilization and Beyond is a history book by Scott Nearing. Nearing was an American radical economist, educator and writer. Excerpt: "Thousands of years before the city of Rome was ringed with its six miles of stone wall, other peoples in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa were building civilizations. New techniques of excavation, identification and preservation, subsidized by an increasingly affluent human society, and developed during the past two centuries of archeological research have provided the needed means and manpower. The result is an imposing number of long buried building sites with their accompanying artifacts. Still more important are the records written in long forgotten languages on stone, clay tablets, metal, wood and paper. These remnants and records, left by extinguished civilizations, do not tell us all we wish to know, but they do provide the materials which enable us to reconstruct, at least in part, the lives of our civilized predecessors."
Introduction to the Science of Language
Author: Archibald Henry Sayce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description