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Language in mind : advances in the study of language and thought /

The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitionin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gentner, Dedre, Goldin-Meadow, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Whither whorf / Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow
  • Languages and representations / Eve V. Clark
  • Language and mind : let's get the issues straight! / Stephen G. Levinson
  • The key is social cognition / Michael Tomasello
  • Sex, syntax, and semantics / Lera Boroditsky, Lauren A. Schmidt, and Webb Phillips
  • Speaking versus thinking about objects and actions / Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, and Silvia P. Gennari
  • The effects of spatial language on spatial representation : setting some boundaries / Edward Munnich and Barbara Landau
  • Language and thought online : cognitive consequences of linguistic relativity / Dan I. Slobin
  • Why we're so smart / Dedre Gentner
  • Does language help animals think? / Stan A. Kuczaj II and Jennifer L. Hendry
  • What makes us smart? Core knowledge and natural language / Elizabeth S. Spelke
  • Conceptual and linguistic factors in inductive projection : how do young children recognize commonalities between animals and plants? / Kayoko Inagaki and Giyoo Hatano
  • Language for thought : coming to understand false beliefs / Jill G. de Villiers and Peter A. de Villiers
  • Space under construction : language-specific spatial categorization in first language acquisition / Melissa Bowerman and Soonja Choi
  • Reevaluating linguistic relativity : language-specific categories and the role of universal ontological knowledge in the construal of individuation / Mutsumi Imai and Reiko Mazuka
  • Interaction of language type and referent type in the development of nonverbal classification preferences / John A. Lucy and Suzanne Gaskins
  • Thought before language : do we think ergative? / Susan Goldin-Meadow.