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020			_a9780198736455
040			_cIIT Kanpur
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082			_a181.07 _bJ129u
100			_aJackendoff, Ray
245			_aA user's guide to thought and meaning _cRay Jackendoff; illustrated by Neil Cohn, Bill Griffith and others _b'startling & insightful' Steven Pinker
260			_bOxford University Press _c2012 _aOxford
300			_axi, 274p
520			_aA User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact, rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language. Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.
650			_aThought and thinking
650			_aMeaning (Philosophy)
650			_aPsycholinguistics
700			_aCohn, Neil [ill.]
700			_aGriffith, Bill [ill.]
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