Book Description
In this collection of Chomsky's lectures, the first three essays describe linguistic contributions to the study of the mind and the last three discuss the relationship among linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
In this collection of Chomsky's lectures, the first three essays describe linguistic contributions to the study of the mind and the last three discuss the relationship among linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
Author : Dedre Gentner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2003-03-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262571630
The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently. Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought, recent theoretical and methodological advances in cognitive science have given the question new life. Research in linguistics and linguistic anthropology has revealed striking differences in cross-linguistic semantic patterns, and cognitive psychology has developed subtle techniques for studying how people represent and remember experience. It is now possible to test predictions about how a given language influences the thinking of its speakers. Language in Mind includes contributions from both skeptics and believers and from a range of fields. It contains work in cognitive psychology, cognitive development, linguistics, anthropology, and animal cognition. The topics discussed include space, number, motion, gender, theory of mind, thematic roles, and the ontological distinction between objects and substances. Contributors Melissa Bowerman, Eve Clark, Jill de Villiers, Peter de Villiers, Giyoo Hatano, Stan Kuczaj, Barbara Landau, Stephen Levinson, John Lucy, Barbara Malt, Dan Slobin, Steven Sloman, Elizabeth Spelke, and Michael Tomasello
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521658225
Outstanding and unique contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind by Noam Chomsky.
Author : Aniruddh D. Patel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 019989017X
In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time, the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently, scientific research on this topic has been growing rapidly, as scholars from diverse disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, music cognition, and neuroscience are drawn to the music-language interface as one way to explore the extent to which different mental abilities are processed by separate brain mechanisms. Accordingly, the relevant data and theories have been spread across a range of disciplines. This volume provides the first synthesis, arguing that music and language share deep and critical connections, and that comparative research provides a powerful way to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying these uniquely human abilities. Winner of the 2008 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.
Author : Daniel R. Condron
Publisher : SOM Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780944386156
Interpretatie van het bijbelboek Matteus.
Author : John R Searle
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0786723874
Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract heights to the terra firma of real-world understanding, so that those with no knowledge of philosophy can understand how these principles play out in our everyday lives. The author stresses that there is a real world out there to deal with, and condemns the belief that the reality of our world is dependent on our perception of it.
Author : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521888425
If language influences the way we think, does it mean that bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? Interweaving cutting edge research, case studies and personal experience, this book will take you on a quest to unlock the mysteries of the bilingual mind.
Author : Michel Achard
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN :
Language, Culture, and Mind is a stimulating collection exploring the ways that cognitive, social, and cultural categories are revealed through language. Contributors use methods such as psycholinguistic experiments and observations of natural discourse to probe how such categories are organized, with grammatical and semantic analyses--in modern cognitive frameworks--augmenting these approaches. Some of the phenomena studied include the linguistic expression of space and causality; aspect, classifiers, negation, and complement constructions; and metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual blending across different domains of human experience. The result is a fresh perspective on the way language relates to thought and culture.
Author : Ermanno Bencivenga
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520207912
"A wonderful contribution to modern discussions of language, mind, and theories of personhood, the work deals with perennial themes but in a highly idiosyncratic way."--Daniel Berthold-Bond, author of Hegel's Theory of Madness
Author : Daniel R. Boisvert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1000059537
Language is a natural resource: Power and vulnerability are associated with access to language, just as to food and water. In this new book, a linguist and philosopher elucidate why language is so powerful, illuminate its very real social and political implications, and make the case for linguistic equality—equality among languages and equality in access to/knowledge of language and its use—as a human right and tool to prevent violence and oppression. Students and instructors will find this accessible, interdisciplinary text invaluable for courses that explore how language reflects power structures in linguistics, philosophy/ethics, and cognitive science/psychology.