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In this book, Bogdan offers an empirically informed theory of the emergence and nature of predication with unmistakable pragmatic and developmental overtones. While the emphasis on psycho-pragmatic and developmental factors is most welcome, and while the discussion is informed and informative, Bogdan’s thesis suffers from some major weaknesses, in particular philosophical ones. Chief among these is an insufficient clarity with regard to the problem domain being addressed: Bogdan professes to offer a theory of predication as a general mental faculty but in reality he focuses on a rather narrower phenomenon. This narrow delineation of the problem domain, and Bogdan’s insistence on the discontinuity between full-fledged human predication and animal thought patterns, leads to a theoretical impasse that renders the very coherence of his proposal dubitable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience," edited by Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Bishnu N. Mohapatra and Sudha Pai.

A review of the book "Rethinking the Baroque," by Helen Hills is presented.

The article reviews the book "From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jersey Literary Thinking," by Dan Miron.

The article reviews the book "How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms" by Marc Caplan.

The article reviews the book "Adam Elsheimer in Rom: Werk, Kontext, Wirkung," edited by Andreas Thielmann and Stefan Gronert.