Mental States

Name: Mental States | Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure
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Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure

Andrea C. Schalley Drew Khlentzos(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 13. Dezember 2007

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Mental States. Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
List of contributors
1. Mental categories in natural languages
2. A culture-neutral metalanguage for mental state concepts
1 Introduction
2 Semantic primes for mental states
3 Explicating emotion terms: "Surprise" in English and Malay
4 Explicating epistemic verbs: English vs. Swedish
5 Explicating ethnopsychological constructs: English, Malay and Korean
6 Implications and conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix
3. Shape and colour in language and thought
1 Languages as the mirror of the mind - and as mirrors of different, culturally shaped, "minds"
2 The importance of studying the meaning of words
3 Explicating abstract concepts and concrete concepts
4 Exploring the concept of shape
5 The importance of hands in the conceptualisation of the world
6 Shape vs. dimensions
7 What the two Burarra terms mean and why they are not "colour" terms
References
4. Universal and language-specific aspects of "propositional attitudes"
1 Introduction
2 Theories of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage and the Moscow School of Semantics compared
3 Dumat' and scitat' in the canonical contexts of the primitive think
4 The semantics of scitat'
5 Scitat' in a broader linguistic and cultural context
6 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
5. Mental states reflected in cognitive lexemes related to memory
1 Introduction
2 Mental verbs in Korean
3 kiekha- 'remember'
4 kiekna- 'memory comes, remember'
5 chwuekha- 'reminisce'
6 Conclusion
Romanisation and abbreviations in interlinear glosses
Typographical conventions
Corpus used for Korean examples
References
Appendix
6. Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition
1 Introduction
2 A taste of Chinese 'taste'-related words
3 Research methodology
4 Semantic analysis of Chinese 'taste' terms
5 Theoretical and methodological implications
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
References
7. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf
1 Introduction
2 Autism
3 Autism and narrative
4 This case study
5 A simple two-part model of knowledge state management: Personal narrative
6 Lincoln's spontaneous written story retelling
7 Episodic macrostructure of the retold stories
8 Perspective
9 Conclusions
References
Appendix
8. Interaction between language and cognition in language development
1 Introduction
2 Background context
3 Resurgence of interest in linguistic relativity
4 Thinking-for-speaking
5 The temporal domain
6 The Thai aspectual system
7 The Thai frog story data
8 Typological and language-specific patterns
References
9. What figurative language development reveals about the mind
1 Introduction
2 The late development view
3 The early development view - recent work
4 The development of hyperbole
5 Why figurative language cognition should develop early: Theory of Mind
6 Conclusion
References
10. Would you rather 'embert a cudsert' or' cudsert an embert'?
1 Introduction
2 Dictionary analysis
3 Readers' sensitivity to orthographic cues
4 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix A
11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern Australia
1 Introduction
2 The Berlin folk taxonomic system
3 Indigenous Australian folk taxonomies
4 Characteristics of names for individuals and kinds
5 Conclusion: Why are the taxonomic systems of Aboriginal societies so different to that of English?
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
References
12. Events masquerading as entities
1 Introduction
2 An introduction to some relevant features of Mawng
3 The three types of complement clauses in Mawng
4 Pseudorelatives in French and Mawng
5 Relative clauses and focus sentences
6 Towards a discourse-based account of the Mawng pseudorelative
7 Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
13. Word and construction as units of categorization
1 Introduction: Word, category, polysemy, construction
2 Expressing change in Estonian: An overview
3 Change-of-state constructions in Estonian
4 The change-of-state senses of Estonian core verbs
5 Principles for categorizing change in Estonian
6 Conclusion
Abbrevations
References
14. Categories and concepts in phonology
1 The role of concepts
2 What is a concept?
3 What about words?
4 Why study concepts?
5 Theorising concepts
6 The Natural Attitude
7 A method of analysis
8 Metalanguage
9 Phonological terms
10 Acquisition of phonological terms
11 Abstractness of phonological terms
12 Implications for theory
13 Implications for practice
14 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
15. You can run, but: Another look at linguistic relativity
1 What's the argument?
2 The role of positive and negative instances
3 Examples
4 Point-light displays
5 Verbs of motion
6 What can we conclude?
Acknowledgements
References
Name index
Language index
Subject index
Table of contents of volume 1
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