Communication and Affect
Language and Thought
Published on 10. May 2014
212 pages
978-1-4832-7034-0 (ISBN)
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Communication and Affect: Language and Thought is a collection of papers presented at the second symposium on Communication and Affect held at Erindale College, University of Toronto, in March 1972. This volume contains a series of papers dealing with neobehavioristic approach to language and thought. The individual papers represent a broad spectrum of topics that are linked by their common neobehavioristic methodology and by their subject matter dealing with human verbal and symbolic behavior. Topics discussed in the compendium include the linguistic concept of marked and unmarked attributes and its relation to cognitive structure and affect; a comparison of the pictorial and verbal modes of representing information; the evolution of human cognition; empirical and theoretical approaches to the question of localization of language functions in the human brain; and the nature of implicit communications in experimental situations. Psychologists, behavioral scientists, linguists, and researchers in the field of human communication will find the book invaluable.
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List of ContributorsPrefaceWhat Is Meant by Knowing a Language?Cognitive Structure and Affect in LanguageSome Modes of Representation Reading Pictures Information Seeking Some Differences Between Pictures and Words Some Uses ReferencesA "Levels of Analysis" View of Memory A "Levels of Analysis" Framework Experiment I Experiment II Experiment III Experiment IV Experiment V Conclusions ReferencesSymboling and Semantic Conditioning: Anthropogeny Evidence Theory Chomsky and Lenneberg Anthropogeny ReferencesLanguage and the Cerebral Hemispheres: Reaction-Time Studies and Their Implications for Models of Cerebral Dominance Introduction Arguments Against a Split-Brain (or Efficiency) Model Arguments Against the Sufficiency of an Expectancy or Attention Hypothesis Implications of the Functional Localization Model ReferencesMother-Infant Dyad: The Cradle of Meaning Method Results Discussion ReferencesCommunication by the Total Experimental Situation: Why It Is Important, How It Is Evaluated, and Its Significance for the Ecological Validity of Findings The Consequences of Being in an Experiment: The Psychological Experiment as a Unique Form of Social Interaction The Motivation of the Experimental Subject Cues That Determine the Subject's Perception of the Experimental Instructions The Study of Demand Characteristics The Concept of Quasi-Controls Quasi-Controls as Procedures to Evaluate the Total Experimental Communication Demand Characteristics as a Spoiler Variable The Peculiar Nature of the Psychological Experiment and How It Affects Replication of Prior Research Summary ReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
