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880806
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Wang, Xinli,1956-
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Incommensurability and cross-language communication /\ Xinli Wang.
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| Publication Statement
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Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.,, ©2007.
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| Series Statement
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Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
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xii, 367 pages ;; 24 cm.
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075463034X
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: 9780754630340
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-361) and index.
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| Contents
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The many facets of incommensurability -- Incommensurability as untranslatability -- Incommensurability and conceptual schemes -- In defence of the very notion of conceptual schemes -- Case studies : the emergence of truth-value gaps -- Toward the presuppositional interpretation -- Kuhn's taxonomic incommensurability : a reconstruction -- A defence of the notion of semantic presupposition -- The structure of a pre-suppositional language -- Existential presumptions and universal principles -- Categorical frameworks -- The failure of cross-language understanding -- Hermeneutic understanding in abnormal discourse -- Informative communication breakdown : the transmission model -- Dialogical communication breakdown I : Gadamer's conversation model -- Dialogical communication breakdown II : Habermas's discourse model -- The concept of incommensurability.
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Contributions include: 'The Many Facets of Incommensurability', 'Incommensurability and Conceptual Schemes', 'In Defence of the Very Notion of Conceptual Schemes', 'Toward the Presuppositional Interpretation', 'The Structure of Presuppositional Language' and 'Dialogical Communication Breakdown'.
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Communication.
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Comparative linguistics.
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Comparison (Philosophy)
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Contrastive linguistics.
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Translating and interpreting.
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communication interculturelle-- incommensurabilité-- traduction-- théorie.
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Communication.
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Comparative linguistics.
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Comparison (Philosophy)
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Contrastive linguistics.
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Intersubjektivität
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Kontrastive Linguistik
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Kulturkontakt
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Translating and interpreting.
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Übersetzung
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Wissensrepräsentation
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| Dewey Classification
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121
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BD236.W36 2007
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