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Studies in Language and Cognition.
Title:
Studies in Language and Cognition.
Author:
Zlatev, Jordan.
ISBN:
9781443803151
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (552 pages)
Contents:
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.

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Abstract:
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) metapho...
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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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