N. J. Enfield

Language vs. Reality

Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Argues that the primary function of language is not to describe the physical world but to manage the social one. Aimed at a general readership"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780262046619
• ISBN-10: 026204661X
• Artikelnr.: 63051520

Autorenporträt

N.J. Enfield

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
I Mapped by Language
1 Coordinating around Reality 11
2 Schelling's Game 25
3 Language and Nature 37
II Nudged by Language
4 Priming and Overshadowing 63
5 Linguistic Relativity 87
6 Communicative Need 99
7 Framing and Inversion 111
III Made by Language
8 Russell's Conjugation and Wittgenstein's Ruler 127
9 Stories and What They Do to Us 149
10 Social Glue 161
11 Sense Making 179
Conclusion 195
Notes 203
Bibliography 263
Index 293