Thought Based Linguistics

Author : Wallace Chafe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108369278
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought-based Linguistics written by Wallace Chafe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent to which language is inseparable from thought has long been a major subject of debate across linguistics, psychology, philosophy and other disciplines. In this study, Wallace Chafe presents a thought-based theory of language that goes beyond traditional views that semantics, syntax, and sounds are sufficient to account for language design. Language begins with thoughts in the mind of a speaker and ends by affecting thoughts in the mind of a listener. This obvious observation is seldom incorporated in descriptions of language design for two major reasons. First, the role of thought is usually usurped by semantics. But semantic structures are imposed on thought by languages and differ from one language to another. Second, thought does not lend itself to familiar methods of linguistic analysis. Chafe suggests ways of describing thoughts, traces the path languages follow from thoughts to sounds, and explores ways in which thoughts are oriented in time, memory, imagination, reality, and emotions.

Author : Wallace Chafe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421172
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought-Based Linguistics written by Wallace Chafe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.

Author : Dorothy Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521311687
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Models in Language and Thought written by Dorothy Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.

Author : Michael TOMASELLO
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044398
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing a Language written by Michael TOMASELLO and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.

Author : L. S. Vygotskii
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought and Language written by L. S. Vygotskii and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Spivey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536141
Total Pages : 1297 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics written by Michael Spivey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 1297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our ability to speak, write, understand speech and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going on around them, but by trailblazers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. Some topics discussed include how children learn language, how average adults understand and produce language, how language is represented in the brain, how brain-damaged individuals perform in terms of their language abilities and computer-based models of language and meaning. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates who are interested in the recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.

Author : Maya Honda
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405108312
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Linguistically written by Maya Honda and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Linguistically is a unique and clearly written introduction to the nature of linguistic analysis and issues in language acquisition. The book is for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, education, and psychology. Through twenty problem sets, based in languages not only from the Americas but from other continents as well, Thinking Linguistically: • Initiates students to the linguists’ way of observing and analyzing data by making the methods and the process of inquiry visible and accessible. • Engages students in analyzing the breadth and depth of two phenomena in a variety of languages—the expression of noun phrase plurality and the formation of questions. • Integrates analysis of these phenomena with results from first and second language acquisition research. • Emphasizes the interface between phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. • Exemplifies how linguistic analysis can be used for the teaching of critical thinking, problem solving, and the nature of scientific inquiry in general. • Is ideal for future language teachers for understanding acquisition and linguistic phenomena

Author : John A. Lucy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521387972
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Diversity and Thought written by John A. Lucy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on the relationship between grammar and thought.

Author : Gilles Fauconnier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599535
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mappings in Thought and Language written by Gilles Fauconnier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich array of attested data in ordinary language, humor, action and design, science, and narratives. Phenomena that receive attention include counterfactuals; time, tense, and mood; opacity; metaphor; fictive motion; grammatical constructions; quantification over cognitive domains.

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674510302
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Thought written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling defense of the speculative approach to the philosophy of mind, Jerry Fodor argues that, while our best current theories of cognitive psychology view many higher processes as computational, computation itself presupposes an internal medium of representation. Fodor's prime concerns are to buttress the notion of internal representation from a philosophical viewpoint, and to determine those characteristics of this conceptual construct using the empirical data available from linguistics and cognitive psychology.