Engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. This book examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-pol…
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The field of culture and psychology is one of the fastest growing areas in the social sciences. As a repeating annual series, Advances in Culture and Psychology will be the first to offer state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research programs in the growing field of culture and…
Fascinating and original, Scott-Phillips presents a novel thesis explaining the origins and evolution of language to answer the questions of why language is unique to humans and how language developed. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, biology, linguistics and anthropology, it…
Much contemporary philosophical debate centres on the topics of logic, thought and language, and on the connections between these topics. This collection of articles is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2000-2001. Its contributors include a n…
