Studies in language and cognition / / edited by Jordan Zlatev ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814332503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-03599-1; 9786612035999; 1-4438-0315-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (552 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ZlatevJordan
• Disciplina: 400; 410
• Soggetti: Language and languages; Cognition; Psycholinguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...