The Language Game

The Language Game

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  • Author: Morten H. Christiansen
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 1541674979
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity—and one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. Language isn’t about hardwired grammars but about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the only requirement being a desire to understand and be understood. From this new vantage point, Christiansen and Chater find compelling solutions to major mysteries like the origins of languages and how language learning is possible, and to long-running debates such as whether having two words for “blue” changes what we see. In the end, they show that the only real constraint on communication is our imagination.


The Language of the Game

The Language of the Game

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  • Author: Laurent Dubois
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • ISBN: 046509449X
  • Category : Sports & Recreation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

Essential reading for soccer fans as the 2022 World Cup approaches, this lively and lyrical book is "an ideal guide to the world's most popular sport" (Simon Kuper, coauthor of Soccernomics). Soccer is not only the world's most popular game; it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. The Language of the Game is a passionate and engaging introduction to soccer's history, tactics, and human drama. Profiling soccer's full cast of characters—goalies and position players, referees and managers, commentators and fans—historian and soccer scholar Laurent Dubois describes how the game's low scores, relentless motion, and spectacular individual performances combine to turn each match into a unique and unpredictable story. He also shows how soccer's global reach makes it an unparalleled theater for nationalism, international conflict, and human interconnectedness, with close attention to both men's and women's soccer. Filled with perceptive insights and stories both legendary and little known, The Language of the Game is a rewarding read for anyone seeking to understand soccer better—newcomers and passionate followers alike.


Dialect

Dialect

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  • Author: Hakan Seyalioglu
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780999870013
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :


The Language Complexity Game

The Language Complexity Game

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  • Author: Eric Sven Ristad
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN: 9780262181471
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

This work elucidates the structure and complexity of human language in terms of the mathematics of information and computation. It strengthens Chomsky's early work on the mathematics of language, with the advantages of a better understanding of language and a more precise theory of structural complexity. Ristad argues that language is the process of constructing linguistic representations from the forms produced by other cognitive modules and that this process is NP-complete. This NP-completeness is defended with a phalanx of elegant and revealing proofs that rely only on the empirical facts of linguistic knowledge and on the uncontroverted assumption that these facts generalize in a reasonable manner. For this reason, these complexity results apply to all adequate linguistic theories and are the first to do so. Eric Sven Ristad is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is the coauthor of Computational Complexity and Natural Language. Contents:Foundation of the Investigation. Anaphora. Ellipsis. Phonology. Syntactic Agreement and Lexical Ambiguity. Philosophical Issues.


The Language Game

The Language Game

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  • Author: Ewandro Magalhaes
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781081899479
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

The door to the booth has been opened. Come on in. Make yourself comfortable. Put on the headset. Listen to the voices. Contemplate the gestures through the booth window. Let yourself be the interpreter. You will come to see communication in a different light. Using your imagination, you may be surprised to see reflected in the glass a familiar face looking back at you. Maybe you will even hear, above it all, the unmistakable sound of your own voice.


The "Language game" of confessing one's belief

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  • Author: Mary-John Mananzan
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3111352536
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.


101 Language Games for Children

101 Language Games for Children

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  • Author: Paul Rooyackers
  • Publisher: Hunter House
  • ISBN: 9780897933698
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 148

An ideal resource for teachers, therapists, and social workers, this collection of language games helps children of suggested age ranges to effectively express themselves and enhance vocabulary, conversation, and storytelling skills. Illustrations.


The Language game

The Language game

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  • Author: Carlos G. Vallés
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : es
  • Pages : 163


Language Games

Language Games

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  • Author: Myra King
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104


Games Language People Play

Games Language People Play

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  • Author: Jerry Steinberg
  • Publisher: Agincourt, Ont. : Dominie Press
  • ISBN: 9780887510175
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 136

Learning a new language can be very demanding, but it can also be good fun, and in between the hard work of language acquisition there are opportunities for breaks from the regular classroom routine where what has been learned is put to rewarding and practical use. Games Language People Play provides teachers with a variety of language games to make the teaching and learning of a new language an occasion for enjoyable competitiveness. There are 110 games in all, ranging in level from Beginners to Advanced. Each game carries an indication of the language skill or combination of skills being employed -- reading, writing, listening, speaking -- and the optimal group size, from as few as 10 students to games suitable for classes of unlimited size. The game's instructional objective -- for example, vocabulary expansion -- the materials needed, a full description and additional suggestions are all provided, with all that remains being for you and your class to enjoy the wonderfully creative ideas that Jerry Steinberg has put into book form for you. Originally published more than 20 years ago, Games Language People Play has continued to delight teachers and students of English every year since then.