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Author Pablé, Adrian

Title Critical Humanist Perspectives : the Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
Routledge advances in communication and linguistic theory.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; PART I; 1 Introduction: humanism, existentialism and integrational semiology; PART II Integrating humanism; 2 Secular humanist discourses on rationality: exploring questions in the philosophy of language and communication; 3 Bedrock concepts and integrational theory: selves, animals and legal persons; 4 The nature of language and the language of nature: Rabindranath Tagore's Sabda Tattwo or The Essence of Words as an integrationist text; 5 An integrationist perspective on African philosophy
PART III Integrating linguistics6 Can integrational linguistics be integrated with (critical) discourse analysis?; 7 Indeterminacy in sociolinguistic and integrationist theory; 8 Towards human concepts of language meaning and text comprehension; PART IV Integrating systems and agency; 9 The notion of an integrated system; 10 Humanist machines: an integrationist critique of mechanical models; PART V Integrating freedom and creativity; 11 Mr. Micawber anticipates Feist: transformations of mental labour; 12 Language and freedom vol 1: the abstract and the concrete
13 Emotional labour and the neoliberal entrepreneurial self at work and in the home: emotions as privatised individual capital or revolutionary social praxis?PART VI Integrating humanist models of education; 14 Freedom of speech in a therapeutic age; 15 'Crazy English' and individual English learners: an integrationist critique of English education as a business in China; PART VII; Discussion: integrationism, anti-humanism and the suprasubjective; Index
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ISBN 9781317220923
1317220927