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1. The Language Myth in Western Culture

   Edited by Roy Harris

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of such codes to transfer messages from...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. A Practice that Works

   Strategies to Complement Your Stand Alone Therapy Practice

   Edited by Steven M. Harris, Ph.D, David C. Ivey, Ph.D, Roy A. Bean, Ph.D.

   In the advent of managed care and the continuing decline in reimbursement felt across the various disciplines of mental health have had profound impacts upon the quality and quantity of care in the field. As it has become increasingly difficult for a practitioner in private practice to...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Rationality and the Literate Mind

   By Roy Harris

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Signs, Language and Communication

   By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris

   In Signs, Language and Communication readers familiar with the arguments of Professor Harris' previous work, including Signs of Writing, will find those ideas developed here to cover not just writing, but aspects of art, design and manufacture. Roy Harris proposes a new theory of communication. He...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. Education in Popular Culture

   Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners

   By Roy Fisher, Ann Harris, Christine Jarvis

   Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The book provides an overview of education as it is represented...

   Published May 1st 2008 by Routledge
6. Foundations of Indo-European Comparative Philology 1800-1850

   Edited by Roy Harris

   Series: Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics

   The study of Indo-European language groups, in which the methodology of historical and comparative linguistics was developed, was based on a historical comparison of the morphology, phonology and etymology of the various languages in this group. This collection highlights the enormous influence...

   Published June 30th 1999 by Routledge
7. Landmarks In Linguistic Thought Volume I

   The Western Tradition From Socrates To Saussure, 2nd Edition

   By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris, Talbot Taylor

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   By introducing the reader to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought quickly becomes apparent. Each chapter in this accessible book contains a short extract from a `landmark' text followed by a...

   Published March 26th 1997 by Routledge
8. Signs of Writing

   By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris

   In Signs of Writing Roy Harris re-examines basic questions about writing that have long been obscured by the traditional assumption that writing is merely a visual substitute for speech.By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use of spatial relations to connect...

   Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge
9. Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein

   How to Play Games with Words

   By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. By pointing out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from very different intellectual sources, this study...

   Published October 24th 1990 by Routledge