The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume I

Author:   Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781848725928


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   28 May 2014
Format:   Paperback
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From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language structure in terms already familiar to psychologists, thus defining the next era in the scientific study of language. The Classic Edition volumes re-introduce some of the most important cognitive and functional linguists working in the field. They include a new introduction by Michael Tomasello in which he reviews what has changed since the volumes first published and highlights the fundamental insights of the original authors. The New Psychology of Language volumes are a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how cognitive and functional linguistics has become the thriving perspective on the scientific study of language that it is today.

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Author:   Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Psychology Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781848725928


ISBN 10:   1848725922
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   28 May 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure, M. Tomasello Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar, R.W. Langacker The Functional Approach to Grammar, T. Givón The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language, W. Croft Language and the Flow of Thought, W. Chafe The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective, A. Wierzbicka Emergent Grammar, P.J. Hopper Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories, J.R. Taylor Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language, A.E. Goldberg The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, R.D. Van Valin, Jr. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration, G. Fauconnier

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Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes. Books include First Verbs (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Primate Cognition (Oxford University Press, 1997, with J. Call), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (Harvard University Press, 2003), Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), and A Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014).

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