From molecule to metaphor : a neural theory of language /
In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Bradford book.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The mystery of embodied language
- 2. The information processing perspective
- 3. Computational models
- 4. Neurons and other cells
- 5. The society of neurons
- 6. Nature and nurture
- 7. Connections in the mind
- 8. Embodied concepts and their words
- 9. The computational bridge
- 10. First words
- 11. Conceptual schemas and cultural frames
- 12. Learning spatial relation words
- 13. Embodied knowledge of actions
- 14. Learning action words
- 15. Conceptual systems
- 16. Metaphors and meaning
- 17. Understanding as simulation
- 18. The structure of action and events
- 19. Belief and inference
- 20. Understanding news stories
- 21. Combining forms--grammar
- 22. The language wars
- 23. Combining meanings--embodied construction grammar
- 24. Embodied language understanding
- 25. Learning constructions
- 26. Remaining mysteries
- 27. All together now.