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Author & Title: Luca Magni, Giorgio Marchetti and Ahlam Alharbi, Learnable Theory & Analysis, Luiss University Press, Rome, 2023

Book description:

This introduction to Learnable Theory and Analysis leverages several contributions that Italian researchers and research centers have provided in Philosophy, Linguistics and Neurosciences. Contributions which appear particularly relevant in the construction of a solid link between Philosophy and Business Studies. A link which has the ambition to guide both Academics and Practitioners of Management across the tumultuous waters of Philosophy, Linguistics and Neurosciences, whose investigations the authors here present and develop in view of new opportunities of deeper understanding and broader interventions. Contributions of scholars such as Giacomo Rizzolatti and Silvio Ceccato, as well as the work of others who have been following their tracks and, in some cases, even drastically reconsidered their propositions, are here highly leveraged and celebrated together with Roy Bhaskar’s revolutionary ontological framework and George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s enlightening studies on metaphors.

Table of Contents:
Foreword

(by Matteo Caroli)

Introduction

(by Luca Magni)

CHAPTER I. The Foundations of Learnable Theory

(by Luca Magni)

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Ontologies of Stratified Reality & Critical Realism

3. Learnable and the Challenges in Contemporary Philosophy

4. Learnable and cultures

5. Conclusion

References

CHAPTER II. The Neuroscientific Roots of Learnable Analysis

(by Luca Magni)

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Mirror Neurons

3. Neural Networks Development and Reuse

4. Interiorization of Language and Syntax

5. On Focusing and Defocusing Effects of Interiorized Language Structures

6. Conceptual Metaphors

7. The Learnable, Metaphors, Attentional Processes and Prepositions

8. Conclusion

References

CHAPTER III. Metaphor Triangulation of Learnables

(by Ahlam Alharbi)

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. From Taxonomy of Metaphors to Metaphor Triangulation of Learnables

3. Covid-19 Discourse & Metaphor

4. Methodology

5. Data Analysis

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion

References

CHAPTER IV. The Linguistic and Cognitive Relevance of Prepositions

(by Giorgio Marchetti)

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Prepositional Assembling

3. A Comparison Between Prepositions and the Other Major Classes of Relators

3.1. Conjunctions

3.2. Relative pronouns, adverbs and determiners

3.3. Noun-adjective phrases

3.4. Subject-predicate construction

3.5. Verb-direct object construction

3.6. Copulas

3.7. Adverbs

4. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER V. The Cognitive Operational Meanings of Prepositions and their Leveraging in Learnable Analysis

(by Giorgio Marchetti)

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Prepositions: Syncategorematic, Polysemantic or Monosemantic Words?

3. English Prepositions

3.1. of

3.2. in

3.3. to

3.4. for

3.5. with

3.6. on

3.7. at

3.8. by

3.9. over

3.10. against

3.11. without

4. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER VI. The Attentional Impact of Prepositions in Metaphors: Focusing and Defocusing Mechanisms of the Learnable

(by by Luca Magni, Giorgio Marchetti and Ahlam Alharbi)

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Metaphors

3. Prepositional metaphors

4. Conclusion

References

Closing Remarks

(by Luca Magni)

Link to LUISS University Press:

https://luissuniversitypress.it/pubblicazioni/learnable-theory-analysis/

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