Studies in Language and Cognition
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2008
552 pages
978-1-4438-0315-1 (ISBN)
Description
Using a plethora of concepts, theories and methods, the theoretical and empirical studies described in this volume are united in their approach of treating language not in isolation (e.g. as a ",module",), but as both based on structures and processes of cognition, and at the same time as affecting the human mind. The book is organized in 7 parts, corresponding to some of the major fields in language research today: (a) linguistic meta-theory and general issues, (b) lexical meaning, (c) metaphor, (d) grammar, (e) pragmatics, (f) gesture and bodily communication, and (g) historical linguistics. At the same time, the non-modular approach to language adopted by the authors is reflected by the fact that there are no strict boundaries between the parts. Thus, the book is a valuable contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of Language and Cognition.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BRINGING LANGUAGE AND COGNITION BACK TOGETHER AGAIN
- I
- THE TRUE NATURE OF TYPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
- REASSESSING THE PROJECT OF LINGUISTICS
- LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY, MEDIATION AND THE CATEGORIZATION OF MOTION
- CAN WE TELL WHAT WE SAID WHEN WE HEAR OURSELVES SAYING SOMETHING ELSE?
- TESTS OF TRUE PICTORIAL COMPETENCE IN CHIMPANZEES
- II
- THE CONSTRUAL OF ENTITY PERMANENCE
- ON THE PROTOTYPICALITY OF DIMENSIONAL ADJECTIVES
- BASIC AND NON-BASIC COLOUR TERMS IN HUNGARIAN
- EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE IN WORD MEANING
- WHAT CAN SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS REVEAL ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF EMOTION CONCEPTS? A CASE STUDY OF ESTONIAN
- A THREE-DIMENSIONAL FORMAT FOR MODELLING LEXICAL ORGANIZATION
- III
- MORE THAN A METAPHOR
- GOING TOWARDS THE UNKNOWN
- THE SWEDISH ADJECTIVE VARM ('WARM')
- DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE IN CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF METAPHORS
- IV
- LEXICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
- IMPAIRED ATTENTION TO PHONOLOGICAL INPUT, DYSFUNCTIONAL LEXICAL"FREQUENCY COUNTERS" AND IMPAIRED GRAMMATICAL MORPHOLOGY
- WHAT CAN CHILD LANGUAGE TELL US ABOUT PREPOSITIONS?
- ANIMACY AND CANONICAL WORD ORDER
- V
- COMPLEX ANAPHORS AND THEIR REFERENTS
- IMPERATIVE FRAMES AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS
- TALKING IN AND ABOUT CONFLICTS
- THE FATHER AND THE SON
- VI
- GESTURE'S ROLE IN CREATING AND LEARNING LANGUAGE
- STAGES AND TRANSITIONS IN CHILDREN'S SEMIOTIC DEVELOPMENT
- POINTING GESTURES, VOCALIZATIONS AND GAZE
- THE EXPRESSION OF NEGATION THROUGH GRAMMAR AND GESTURE
- GESTURE IN THE BRAIN
- THE HAND IS QUICKER THAN THE MIND
- TOWARDS A CONCEPTUALIZED MODEL OF BODILY COMMUNICATION
- VII
- FORCE-DYNAMICS IN THE HISTORY OF SWEDISH MODALS
- ON THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF 'YES' AND 'NO'
- SEMANTIC MOTIVATION AND SYNTACTIC MEMORABILITY IN OLD NORSE KENNINGAR
- AUTHORS' ADDRESSES
- INDEX
