Ray Jackendoff

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

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ISBN 13:: 9780199693207
author:: Ray Jackendoff
format:: HardBack
publisher:: OUP Oxford
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2012
Pages:: 288
Dimensions:: 23.6 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm
Genre:: Health, Family & Lifestyle, Psychology & Psychiatry, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Psychology, linguistics, Meaning (Philosophy), Psycholinguistics, Thought and thinking, Language,
Condition:: New
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Ray Jackendoff's A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a radical new account of the relation between language, meaning, rationality, perception, consciousness, and thought. Written with an informality that belies its original insights, this book offers a fresh perspective on how we perceive and act in the world. Jackendoff explores the meanings of words and sentences, finding them to be more adaptive and complicated than commonly given credit for. He examines how our brains organize language, thought, and perception, revealing that only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. This leads him to conclude that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. The book shows that rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language, challenging our understanding of conscious experience and the nature of thought.

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