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UNINA9910450442803321 |
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Cromer Alan H. <1935-> |
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Uncommon sense [[electronic resource] ] : the heretical nature of science / / Alan Cromer |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
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1-280-45116-5 |
0-19-802435-5 |
9786610451166 |
1-60256-038-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Science - Philosophy |
Science - History |
Thought and thinking |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index. |
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Contents; 1. Aspects of Science; 2. Mind and Magic; 3. From Apes to Agriculture; 4. Prophets and Poets; 5. Theorems and Planets; 6. Sages and Scholars; 7. Towns and Gowns; 8. Science and Nonsense; 9. Are We Alone?; 10. Education for an Age of Science; APPENDIX A: Hindu Trigonometry; APPENDIX B: An Integrated Science Course for Nonscience Students; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development. But physicist and educator Alan Cromer disputes this belief. Cromer argues that science is not the natural unfolding of human potential, but the invention of a particular culture, Greece, in a particular historical period. Indeed, far from being natural, scientific thinking goes so far against the grain of conventional human thought that if it hadn't been discovered in Greece, it might not have been discovered at all. In Uncommon Se |
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UNINA9910797444403321 |
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Autore |
Ostermann Carolin |
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Cognitive lexicography : a new approach to lexicography making use of cognitive semantics / / Carolin Ostermann |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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3-11-042416-9 |
3-11-042428-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Lexicographica : Series Maior, , 0175-9264 ; ; Volume 149 |
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Cognitive grammar |
Lexicography |
Semantics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. A new approach to lexicography -- 2. A history of learner lexicography -- 3. Principles of learner lexicography -- 4. Cognitive linguistics and lexicography -- 5. Person-denoting nouns -- 6. Abstract nouns: emotion terms -- 7. Particles -- 8. Synopsis: cognitive lexicography -- 9. Lexicography in the future -- References |
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English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained in cognitive semantic research for the development of new dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography, three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for |
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emotion terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries. Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise language. |
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