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Studies in language and cognition /
Using various concepts, theories and methods, this book describes theoretical and empirical studies that are united in their approach of treating language not in isolation, but as both based on structures and processes of cognition, and at the same time as affecting the human mind.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 estoniana 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 referentsimperative 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 kenningarauthors' addresses; index.