1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454165003321

Titolo

The knowledge most worth having [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Wayne C. Booth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1967

ISBN

1-281-95917-0

9786611959173

0-226-06570-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoothWayne C

Disciplina

370.11

370.8

370/.8

Soggetti

Education

Education, Humanistic

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A publication of the seventy-fifth anniversary year of the University of Chicago."

"Papers ... delivered at a five-day liberal arts conference sponsored by the undergraduate College of the University of Chicago."

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- IS THERE ANY KNOWLEDGE THAT A MAN MUST HAVE? -- RETURNING COALS TO NEWCASTLE -- THE INSTRUMENTS OF MENTAL PRODUCTION -- A TRANSATLANTIC VIEW OF "WHAT KNOWLEDGE IS WORTH HAVING" -- UNDERGRADUATES AND THE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE -- DIVERSITY -- EDUCATION AND THE CONTEMPORARY WOMAN -- PLATONIC EDUCATION -- THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS -- THE ROLE OF A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE WITHIN A UNIVERSITY

Sommario/riassunto

The Knowledge Most Worth Having represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago-faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one's chosen field. The papers collected here were delivered during an often-heated conference at the university in 1966, and include contributions



from such scholars as Northrop Frye, Richard McKeon, and, of course, the dean of the college, Wayne Booth himself. Taken as a whole, they present a passionate defense of liberal education, one that remains highly relevant today.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808037703321

Autore

Bittner Maria

Titolo

Temporality : universals and variation / / Maria Bittner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-58400-7

1-118-58401-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Explorations in Semantics

Classificazione

LAN016000

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Temporal constructions

Linguistic universals

Language and languages - Variation

Semantics

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Part I Semantic Universals; 1 Direct Semantic Composition; 1.1 Simple Type Logic (TL0); 1.2 A CG.TL0 Fragment of English; 1.3 Dynamic Type Logic (DL0); 1.4 A CG.DL0 Fragment of English; 1.5 Centering: A Blind Spot of English-Based Logics; 2 Nominal Reference with Centering; 2.1 Center v. Periphery: Anaphora to Structured Lists; 2.2 Kalaallisut Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora; 2.3 Mandarin Third Person Features as Top-Level Anaphora; 2.4 English Third Person Pronouns as Shallow Anaphora; 2.5 Simple Update with Centering (UC0)

3 Tense as Temporal Centering3.1 Polish Third Person Inflections as Top-Level Anaphora; 3.2 Polish Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference; 3.3 English Tenses as Temporal (In)definites; 3.4 English Tenses as Top-Level Temporal Reference; 3.5 UC0 with Temporal



Centering (UCт); 4 Aspect as Eventuality Centering; 4.1 Polish Aspect Features v. Inflections; 4.2 Mandarin Aspect Features v. Particles; 4.3 English Aspectual Auxiliaries; 4.4 UCт with Mereology (UCт+); 5 Quantification as Reference to Sets; 5.1 Nominal Quantification and Anaphora; 5.2 Nominal Quantification and Temporal Reference

5.3 Temporal Quantification and Anaphora5.4 UCт+ with Discourse Referents for Sets (UCт&#Ь2225;); 6 Mood as Illocutionary Centering; 6.1 Illocutionary Moods with(out) Reportative Recentering; 6.2 (Not-)at-Issue Content as Modal Discourse Reference; 6.3 (Not-)at-Issue with Start-Up Illocutionary Referents; 6.4 Dependent Moods as Perspectival (Re)centering; 6.5 UCδτ̔̈“““͵· with Illocutionary Referents (UCεωτ̔̈“““͵·); 7 (In)direct Speech and Attitude Reports; 7.1 Mood with(out) Reportative Recentering Revisited; 7.2 At-Issue Reports with Finite Complements; 7.3 At-Issue Reports with Non-Finite Complements

7.4 UC: Combining UCт&#Ь2225; and UCεωτ̔̈“““͵·Part II Temporal Variation; 8 Tense-Based Temporality in English; 8.1 Indexical Past with(out) Recentering Aspect; 8.2 Indexical Non-Past with(out) Recentering Aspect; 8.3 Reports: Speaker's View of Subject's (Non-)Past; 8.4 Quantification: Tenses in Distributive Contexts; 8.5 A CG.UC Fragment of English; 9 Tense-Aspect-Based Temporality in Polish; 9.1 Relative Past (Im)perfective; 9.2 Relative Non-Past (Im)perfective; 9.3 Reports: Subject's (Non-)Past; 9.4 Quantification: Distributed (Im)perfectives; 9.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Polish

10 Aspect-Based Temporality in Mandarin10.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Topic State; 10.2 Future: Prospective Topic State or Comment; 10.3 Reports: Attitudinal Topic State or Comment; 10.4 Quantification: Topical Habit or Distributive Comment; 10.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Mandarin; 11 Mood-Based Temporality in Kalaallisut; 11.1 Non-Future: Verifiable Eventualities; 11.2 Future: Verifiable Eventualities with Future c-Points; 11.3 Reports: Verifiability from Agent's Perspective; 11.4 Quantification: Verifiable Habits; 11.5 A CG.UC Fragment of Kalaallisut; Conclusion; Bibliography; Author Index

Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamic semantics of languages with and without grammatical tenseNew in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well as nominal discourse referencePresents a novel logical language for representing linguistic meaning (Update with Cent