Bludnica i svetica

Starohrvatska legenda o Mariji Egipćanki …o aleksandrijskoj bludnici koja postaje svetica. S mnogo pikantnih detalja iz života jedne bludnice, u knjizi se ponajprije opisuje kontekst u kojemu je jedna takva priča mogla nastati, opisuju se njegove svjetonazorske sastavnice, s osobitim obzirom na etičku koncepciju koja je ženu motrila kao grešno biće i izvor svekolikog zla u svijetu.

Words and Objections – Essays on W. V. Quine

Ostali autori: Donald Davidson (ed.) Opis: Hardcover with Dust Jacket, Book Condition Very Good, Dust Jacket torn on edges. Essays on the work of W. V. Quine edited by D. Davidson and J. Hintikka. Revised Edition. It is gratifying to see that philosophers’ continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors’ belief in the permanent im­ portance of Quine’s philosophy and in the value of the papers com­ menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine’s writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine’s autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography.

Prevođenje: suvremena strujanja i tendencije

Hrvatsko društvo za primijenjenu Lingvistiku. Zbornik radova. Urednice: Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović i Neda Pintarić. Pedeset sedam radova u ovom Zborniku svjedoCi 0 zanimljivosti, ali i znacaju, prevodcnja kao podrucja primijenjene lingvistike. U prikupljenim radovima govori se 0 brojnim aspektima ove teme koja je na savjetovanju Hrvatskoga drustva za primijenjenu lingvistiku, odrzanom 31. ozujka i 1. travnja 1995. godine, privukla i velik broj struenjaka i znanstvenika koji se ne smatraju primijenjenim lingvistima. Interdisciplinarnost teme ovog Zbornika ogleda se u gotovo svim ukljucenim radovima. Tematski, radovi se bave granicama prevodljivosti, procesom prevodenja, pitanjima medujezicnog i unutarjezicnog prevodenja, jezicnim i izvanjezicnim aspektima prevodenja, interkulturalnim aspektima prevodenja, odnosom prevodenja i kontrastivne analize, ulogom prevodenja u nastavi stranih jezika, osnovnim pitanjima knjizevnog prevodenja te ulogom medija u prevodenju. U drugorne dijelu Zbornika nalazi se autorizirani zapis govora pozvanih izlagaca koji su na okruglom stolu Pitanja jeziene kulture, takoder odrZanom u okviru savjetovanja, govorili 0 pristupima jezicnoj kulturi u razliCitim kulturno­jeziCnim sredinama. Vjerujemo da ce i ovaj zbornik Hrvatskoga drustva za primijenjenu lingvistiku biti korisno i zanimljivo stivo svima koji se bave prevodenjem te ga predajemo na ocjenu strucnoj javnosti. Urednice

Semantics of Natural Language 2nd Edition

Ostali autori: Gilbert Harman Opis: Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Occasionally (rarely) underlined. The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The present volume contains the artieles in Synthese 21, Numbers 3-4 and Synthese 22, Numbers 1-2. In addition, it ineludes new papers by Saul Kripke, James McCawley, John R. Ross, and Paul Ziff, and reprints ‘Grammar and Philosophy’ by P. F. Strawson. Strawson’s artiele first appeared in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 70, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Aristotelian Society. We also repeat our thanks to the Olivetti Companyand Edizione di Comunita of Milan for permission to inelude the paper by Dana Scott; it also appeared in Synthese 21. DONALO DAVIDSON GILBERT HARMAN EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The success of linguistics in treating naturallanguages as formal syntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a paralleI or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independ­ ently, many philosophers and logicians have reeently been applying formai semantic methods to structures increasingly like naturallanguages. While differenees in training, method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and linguists are converging, it seerns, on a common set of interrelated probiems. Sinee philosophers and linguists are working on the same, or very similar, probiems, it would obviously be instructive to compare notes.

Approaches to Natural Language

Hardcover with Dust Jacket, Condition Very Good. Proceedings of the 1970 Stanford Workshop on Grammar and Semantics. Editors. K.J.J. Hintikka, J.M.E. Moravcsik and P. Suppes. The papers and comments published in the present volume represent the proceedings of a research workshop on the grammar and semantics of natural languages held at Stanford University in the fall of 1970. The workshop met first for three days in September and then for a period of two days in November for extended discussion and analysis. The workshop was sponsored by the Committee on Basic Research in Education, which has been funded by the United States Office of Education through a grant to the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Sciences – National Research Council. We acknowledge with pleasure the sponsorship which made possible a series oflively and stimulating meetings that were both enjoyable and instructive for the three of us, and, we hope, for most of the participants, including a number of local linguists and philosophers who did not contribute papers but actively joined in the discussion. One of the central participants in the workshop was Richard Montague. We record our sense of loss at his tragic death early in 1971, and we dedicate this volume to his memory. None of the papers in the present volume discusses explicitly problems of education. In our view such a discussion is neither necessary nor sufficient for a contribution to basic research in education. There are in fact good reasons why the kind of work reported in the present volume constitutes an important aspect of basic research in education.

Game-Theoretical Semantics

Hardcover, Condition: Very Good without Dust Jacket and despite occasionally underlined text (everything remains readable). Essays on Semantics by Hintikka, Carlson, Peacocke, Rantala and Saarinen (Academy of Finland).

Everything that Linguists have Always Wanted

Everything that Linguists have Always Wanted to Know about Logic (but were ashamed to ask). Paperback. Condition: Very Good. McCawley supplements his earlier book–which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic–with new material on the logic of conditional sentences, linguistic applications of type theory, Anil Gupta’s work on principles of identity, and the generalized quantifier approach to the logical properties of determiners.

Hrvatski jezik u kontrastu

Prevela NIKOLINA PALAŠIĆ »Ova knjiga ne predstavlja deskriptivnu gramatiku hrvatskoga jezika, a pogotovo ne udžbenik toga jezika u klasičnom smislu. Lingvistički koncept koji joj je poslužio kao orijentacija temelji se na fenomenu gramatičke kategorije. Iz tog se aspekta detaljno i sustavno opisuju temeljne vrste riječi: imenice, pridjevi i glagoli, a postupak je uglavnom deskriptivan. U tim sam okvirima nastojala implicitno i eksplicitno uzeti u obzir stav koji sam navela na početku, naime to da ova knjiga nije primarno namijenjena izvornim govornicima hrvatskog jezika, već je zapravo namijenjena onim govornicima kojima je materinski jezik njemački. Temeljni je cilj pritom bio toj skupini korisnika koliko god je to moguće olakšati pristup gramatičkoj strukturi stranoga hrvatskog jezika. Jedna karakteristika po kojoj se ova knjiga razlikuje od gramatike za izvorne govornike jest da se na brojnim mjestima povlače paralele s njemačkim i ukazuje se na razlike između tih dvaju jezika. To se provodi u onoj mjeri u kojoj se činilo smisleno s obzirom na adresatovu gramatičku kompetenciju u materinskom jeziku.

Kajkaviana i Alia

Ogledi o kajkavskim i drugim hrvatskim govorima. Urednik Josip Lisac. Većina radova (I. Kajkavsko narječje) govori o kajkavskom narječju – razvoju od praslavenskoga, mjestu u slavenskom dijasistemu, interferenciji, pojedinim kajkavskim govorima (Moslavina, Međimurje, Podravina, Mađarska…). Manji se dio radova odnosi na štokavsko i čakavsko narječje te književni jezik i drugo. Knjiga sadrži najpotpuniju bibliografiju kajkavskoga narječja te ostalu konzultiranu literaturu. Četiri rada imaju suautore: Božidar Finka (Virovitički govor), Vesna Zečević (Jat u kajkavštini), Eugenija Barić (Stjepan Pavičić), Ankica Čilaš (Govor Hajmaša).

Carski mjernik i leksikograf

Ostali autori: Ljerka Šimunković Opis: Tekst usporedo na hrvatskom i talijanskom jeziku (Agrimensore imperiale e lessicografo – Antonio Putti). Padovanac Antonio Putti došao je u Dalmaciju u svojstvu geometra prigodom austrijske katastarske premjere Dalmacije koja se odvijala dvadesetih i tridesetih godina 19. stoljeća. Kada je premjera završena, postavljen je na mjesto arhivara katastarskih mapa u Zadru. Cijeli radni vijek proveo je u Dalmaciji, te se pored svojega poslao dugi niz godina bavio izradom jedinstvenog slikovnog rječnika, u kojemu svaki uvršteni pojam ima i odgovarajuću ilustraciju, pa čak i apstraktne imenice, glagoli i pridjevi. Rječnik nikada nije uspio objaviti, pa je objavljen tek 1994. godine u redakturi Ljerke Šimunković i izdanju Accademie della Crusca. U monografiji se pomno analizira autorov životopis i struktura njegova djela, te daje sintetički prikaz materijalnog i duhovnoga života u Dalmaciji toga razdoblja.