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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826569603321

Titolo

Bi-directionality in the cognitive sciences : avenues, challenges, and limitations / / edited by Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller, Astrid Lohöfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-17480-4

9786613174802

90-272-8514-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 313 p. : ill

Collana

Human cognitive processing, , 1387-6724 ; ; v. 30

Altri autori (Persone)

CalliesMarcus

KellerWolfram R

LohöferAstrid

Disciplina

401/.9

Soggetti

Psycholinguistics

Cognitive science

Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Avenues for bi-directionality -- pt. 2. Challenges to and limitations on bi-directionality.

Sommario/riassunto

Cognitive linguistics is on its way to becoming a cognitive science, but a number of problems remain. The relationship between cognitive linguistics and the core cognitive sciences (psychology and neurology) must be clarified: cognitive linguists can selectively import models and methods from these disciplines as a foundation for their linguistic theories, they can export their own models to these disciplines for empirical testing and integration, or they can transform linguistics into a core cognitive science in its own right. The latter requires a number of changes to the models and practices of cognitive linguistics: it must refocus on its linguistic heritage, adopt a more scientific outlook, gain a higher degree of methodological awareness and restrict its models to linguistic constructs and hypotheses that can be operationalized and falsified.