1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784752003321

Titolo

Hard-science linguistics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Victor H. Yngve and Zdzisław Wąsik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2004

ISBN

1-281-29202-8

9786611292027

1-84714-088-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Collana

Open Linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

YngveVictor H. <1920->

WąsikZdzisław

Disciplina

410/.1

Soggetti

Linguistics - Methodology

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I: ORIENTATION TO HARD-SCIENCE LINGUISTICS; PART II: RECONSTITUTING PHONETICS-PHONOLOGY; PART III: IN SEARCH OF CONTEXT; PART IV: VARIATIONAL AND HISTORICAL LINGUSTICS; PART V: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES; PART VI: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS; PART VII: DISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATIONS; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report on how to reconstitute linguistics on the new hard-science foundation laid by Victor H. Yngve in 1996.Hard-science (human) linguistics is the scientific study of how people communicate. It studies people and also communicative energy flow and other relevant parts of the physical environme



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781531403321

Titolo

The Philosophy of Food / / David M. Kaplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-283-36976-1

9786613369765

0-520-95197-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

California Studies in Food and Culture ; ; 39

Disciplina

641.3

Soggetti

Food

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Philosophy of Food -- 1. Real Men Have Manners -- 2. Down-Home Global Cooking: A Third Option between Cosmopolitanism and Localism -- 3. Hunger Is the Best Sauce: The Aesthetics of Food -- 4. Smells, Tastes, and Everyday Aesthetics -- 5. Ethical Gourmandism -- 6. Two Evils in Food Country: Hunger and Lack of Representation -- 7. Ethics and Genetically Modified Food -- 8. The Ethics of Food Safety in the Twenty-First Century: Who Keeps the Public Good? -- 9. The Myth of Happy Meat -- 10. Animal Welfare, Happy Meat, and Veganism as the Moral Baseline -- 11. Animal Ethics and Food Production in the Twenty-First Century -- 12. Nature Politics and the Philosophy of Agriculture -- 13. The Ethics and Sustainability of Aquaculture -- 14. Scenarios for Food Security -- 15. Nutritionism and Functional Foods -- 16. In Vitro Meat: What Are the Moral Issues? -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food: What is it exactly? What should we eat? How do we know it is safe? How should food be distributed? What is good food? David M. Kaplan's erudite and informative introduction grounds the discussion, showing how philosophers since Plato have taken up



questions about food, diet, agriculture, and animals. However, until recently, few have considered food a standard subject for serious philosophical debate. Each of the essays in this book brings in-depth analysis to many contemporary debates in food studies-Slow Food, sustainability, food safety, and politics-and addresses such issues as "happy meat," aquaculture, veganism, and table manners. The result is an extraordinary resource that guides readers to think more clearly and responsibly about what we consume and how we provide for ourselves, and illuminates the reasons why we act as we do.