Language and the Ineffable

A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications

Louis S. Berger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

174 Seiten

2011
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9780739147139 (ISBN)

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One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the difficulties they raise in multiple disciplines. This breakthrough study sees past failures as inevitable, since reformers retained key detrimental features of the received view. Berger undertakes a new reform, grounded in an unconventional model of individual human development. A central radical and generative feature is the premise that the neonate's world is holistic, boundary-less, unimaginable, impossible to describe—in other words, ineffable—completely distinct from what Berger calls "adultocentrism." The study is a wholly original approach to epistemology, separate from the traditional interpretations offered by skepticism, idealism, and realism. The work rejects both the independence of the world and the possibility of true judgment—a startling shift in the traditional responses to the standard schema.

Language and the Ineffable evolves a unique conception of language that challenges and unsettles sacrosanct beliefs, not only about language, but other disciplines as well. Berger demonstrates the framework's potential for elucidating a wide range of problems in such diverse fields as philosophy, logic, psychiatry, general-experimental psychology, psychotherapy, and arithmetic. The reconceptualization marks a revolutionary turn in language studies that reaches across academic boundaries.

Louis S. Berger is a psychologist with a background in music and physics, and the author ofAverting Global Extinction: Our Irrational Society as Therapy Patient. He lives in Forsyth, Georgia.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Chapter One. Background and Rationale
Chapter 3 Chapter Two. The Received View of Language
Chapter 4 Chapter Three. Varieties of Ineffability
Chapter 5 Chapter Four. Ontogenesis, Nonduality, First Language Acquisition
Chapter 6 Chapter Five. What Language Is and Does: The Tier 1 Framework
Chapter 7 Chapter Six. Application 1: Psychiatry, General-Experimental Psychology, Psychotherapy
Chapter 8 Chapter Seven. Application 2: Logic, Mathematics
Chapter 9 Postlude

Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	411 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-13	9780739147139 / 9780739147139
Zustand	Neuware