Works by John Lyons
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- Semantics.John Lyons -1977 - New York: Cambridge University Press.This book, which can be read independently, deals with more specifically linguistic problems in semantics and contains substantial original material.
- (1 other version)Semantics.John Lyons -1978 -Philosophy 53 (205):421-423.No categories
- Linguistic semantics: an introduction.John Lyons -1995 - New York: Cambridge University Press.Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons's important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981).While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clarifications of its specialised terms and explaining its relationship to formal and philosophical semantics (...) and to contemporary pragmatics. With its clear and accessible style it will appeal to a wide student readership. Sir John Lyons is one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. His many publications include Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968) and Semantics (1977). (shrink)
- Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics.R. H. Robins &John Lyons -1969 -Philosophical Quarterly 19 (77):371.
- Deixis, Space and Time.John Lyons -2011 - In Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn & Paul Portner,Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 636-724.No categories
- Isaiah Berlin and His Philosophical Contemporaries.Johnny Lyons -2021 - Springer Verlag.This book sets out to identify the nature and implications of a proper understanding of pluralism in a original and illuminating way. Isaiah Berlin believed that a recognition of pluralism is vital to a free, decent and civilised society. By looking below at the often neglected foundations of Berlin’s celebrated account of moral pluralism, Lyons reveals the more philosophically profound aspects of his undogmatic and humanistic liberal vision. He achieves this by comparing Berlin’s core ideas with those of several of (...) his most distinguished philosophical contemporaries, an exercise which yields not only a deeper grasp of Berlin and several major twentieth-century thinkers, principally A. J. Ayer, J. L. Austin, P. F. Strawson, Bernard Williams and Quentin Skinner, but, more broadly, a keener appreciation of the power of history and philosophy to help us make sense of our predicament. (shrink)No categories
- Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics.Henry M. Hoenigswald &John Lyons -1971 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 91 (4):564.
- Structural Semantics: An Analysis of Part of the Vocabulary of Plato.John Lyons -1963 - Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Language, meaning, and context.John Lyons -1981 - [London]: Fontana.
- A Note on Possessive, Existential and Locative Sentences.John Lyons -1967 -Foundations of Language 3 (4):390-396.No categories
- Descartes and modern imagination.John D. Lyons -1999 -Philosophy and Literature 23 (2):302-312.
- Before imagination: embodied thought from Montaigne to Rousseau.John D. Lyons -2005 - Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press.Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite different. Not reserved to a privileged few, imagination was instead considered a universal ability that each person could direct in practical ways. To imagine something meant to form in the mind a replica of a thing—its taste, its sound, and other physical attributes. At the end of the Renaissance, there was a movement to encourage individuals to develop their ability to imagine vividly. Within (...) their private mental space, a space of embodied, sensual thought, they could meditate, pray, or philosophize. Gradually, confidence in the self-directed imagination fell out of favor and was replaced by the belief that the few—an elite of writers and teachers—should control the imagination of the many. This book seeks to understand what imagination meant in early modern Europe, particularly in early modern France, before the Romantic era gave the term its modern meaning. The author explores the themes surrounding early modern notions of imagination (including hostility to imagination) through the writings of such figures as Descartes, Montaigne, François de Sales, Pascal, the Marquise de Se;vigne;, Madame de Lafayette, and Fe;nelon. (shrink)
- The Invention of the Self: The Hinge of Consciousness in the Eighteenth Century.John O. Lyons -1978 - Southern Illinois University Press.The absence of self in Classical literature and the emergence in the eighteenth century of the concept of the unique and individual self asserting its existence and seeking its truth in private experience and feeling is often touched upon in cultural histories but little explained. Seeking the reasons for and the effects of the change of attitude toward one’s concept of one’s self in the “new” eighteenth-century attitude toward history, biography, travel literature, pornography, and the novel, Lyons finds, first, that (...) the term _self _is deceptively vague. It evolved, he notes, to fill the vacuum created by doubt about the existence of the soul. Second, Lyons finds that without a concept of the self—that ineffable something in a human being that to its inventors and their followers was an abstract of pure and intuited natural laws—the revolution and romanticism of the modern age would have been very different from what it has been. More importantly, Lyons concludes that the concept led to monumental error and to bitter disappointments rooted, as his illuminating history shows, in the impossibility of defining that which never was. (shrink)
- Autonomous cross-cultural hardship travel (acht) as a medium for growth, learning, and a deepened sense of self.John L. Lyons -2010 -World Futures 66 (3-4):286 – 302.In this article, I argue that significant potential for psychological growth and self-learning exists in independent foreign travel characterized by long periods of movement under challenging conditions and combined with intense cross-cultural contact. I call this style of travel autonomous cross-cultural hardship travel (ACHT). A number of studies regarding the personal effects of travel and cross-cultural contact are reviewed. The relevance of humanistic psychology and transformative learning (TL) theory is also considered. I propose that the psychological benefits of ACHT are (...) found in its capacity to promote a “deepened sense of self” that is paradoxical, emergent, and universal. (shrink)
- Morality, politics, and contingency.Johnny Lyons -2022 -European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):179-194.The influential realist thesis that politics and morals are distinct and mutually exclusive spheres of interest is one that has been challenged within the tradition of analytic moral and political theory. Over the last 50 years, several notable liberal analytic philosophers, including Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, and Thomas Nagel, have argued that not only is politics not separate from and inimical to ethics but that there exists such a thing as political morality. This article contends that while the notion of (...) political morality may make more sense of what is regarded as a central and troubling problem of politics, it also forces us to confront the more fundamental challenge of the radical contingency of our moral and political predicament. Whether analytic political theory is capable of producing a convincing response to the latter challenge remains precariously unclear. (shrink)No categories
- Announcements.John D. Lyons -1986 -Philosophy and Literature 10 (2):348.No categories
- Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall. By William Wood.John D. Lyons -2014 -Augustinian Studies 45 (2):369-372.
- Experience, confusion, and history in Bossuet's discourse on universal history.John D. Lyons -2019 - In Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim & Anne Régent-Susini,Universal history and the making of the global. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.Export citation
Bookmark - Einführung in die moderne Linguistik.John Lyons -1972 -Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 34 (3):600-601.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Lingvisticheskai︠a︡ semantika: vvedenie.John Lyons -2003 - Moskva: I︠A︡zyki slavi︠a︡nskoĭ kulʹtury. Edited by V. V. Morozov & I. B. Shatunovskiĭ.Export citation Bookmark
- New Horizons in Linguistics.John Lyons (ed.) -1970 - Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books.
- The Ancients' Ironic Nostalgia.John D. Lyons -2006 -Paragraph 29 (1):94-107.No categories
- Tragic Closure and the Cornelian Wager in The Existential Coordinates of the Human Condition: Poetic, Epic, Tragic. The Literary Genre.John Lyons -1984 -Analecta Husserliana 18:409-415.Export citation Bookmark
- Upon what authority might we teach morality?John D. Lyons -1998 -Philosophy and Literature 22 (1):155-160.
- William Sidney Allen 1918-2004.John Lyons -2006 - In Lyons John,Proceedings of the British Academy, 138 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, V. pp. 3-36.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction (review).John D. Lyons -1993 -Philosophy and Literature 17 (1):155-156.
- Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature (review).John D. Lyons -1991 -Philosophy and Literature 15 (1):142-143.
- Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France (review).John D. Lyons -1992 -Philosophy and Literature 16 (1):206-208.
- Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse (review).John D. Lyons -1986 -Philosophy and Literature 10 (1):102-103.
- Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937 (review).John D. Lyons -1991 -Philosophy and Literature 15 (1):141-142.
- Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (review).John D. Lyons -1986 -Philosophy and Literature 10 (2):334-335.
- The Parasite (review).John D. Lyons -1983 -Philosophy and Literature 7 (2):264-265.
- The Rhetoric of Doubtful Authority. Deconstructive Readings of Self-Questioning Narratives, St. Augustine to Faulkner (review).John D. Lyons -1985 -Philosophy and Literature 9 (2):229-230.
- Book review: Critical tales: New studies of the heptaméron and early modern culture. [REVIEW]John Ded Lyons &ed McKinley, Mary B. -1995 -Philosophy and Literature 19 (2).
- In the Folds of the Renaissance Text. [REVIEW]John D. Lyons -1983 -Diacritics 13 (3):32.No categories
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