
Language, Consciousness, Culture : Essays on Mental Structure.
Title:
Language, Consciousness, Culture : Essays on Mental Structure.
Author:
Jackendoff, Ray S.
ISBN:
9780262276108
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (431 pages)
Series:
Jean Nicod Lectures
Contents:
Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I The Nicod Lectures -- Chapter 1 Mental Structure -- Chapter 2 Reintegrating Generative Grammar -- Chapter 3 Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Language Structure -- Chapter 4 Shaking Hands and Making Coffee: The Structure of Complex Actions -- Chapter 5 Cognition of Society and Culture -- PART II The Structure of Social Cognition and Theory of Mind -- Chapter 6 Perception Verbs and Theory of Mind -- Chapter 7 Objective and Subjective Psychological and Evaluative Predicates -- Chapter 8 Intending and Volitional Action -- Chapter 9 The Logic of Value -- Chapter 10 Fairness, Reciprocity, and Exchange -- Chapter 11 Rights and Obligations -- Chapter 12 Trumpets and Drums -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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