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OverviewThe ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this third volume focuses on the interface between language and cognition. Language use is impossible without the mobilization of a large variety of cognitive processes, each serving a different purpose. During the last half century cognitive approaches to language have been particularly successful, and the broad spectrum of contributions to this volume testify to this success. As cognitive approaches to language are by definition a subset of the larger enterprise of cognitive science, a contribution on this general topic sets the stage. This is joined by a chapter on cognitive grammar, a theoretical study of the architecture of human language that is deeply inspired by general cognitive principles. A chapter on experimentation offers a crash-course on basic issues of experimental design and on the rationale behind statistical testing in general and the most important statistical tests in particular, offering a methodological toolkit for understanding many of the other contributions. Different chapters cover a broad range of topics: language acquisition, psycholinguistics, specialized topics within the latter field (e.g. the bilingual mental lexicon, categorization), and aspects of language awareness. Some chapters home in on what have become indispensible perspectives on the cognitive underpinnings of language: the way language is represented and processed in the human brain and simulation studies. The ever-growing success of the latter type of studies is exemplified, for instance, by the highly flourishing connectionist tradition and the more general paradigm of artificial intelligence, each of which is dealt with in a separate contribution. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dominiek Sandra (University of Antwerp) , Jan-Ola Ostman (University of Helsinki) , Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 3 Weight: 0.800kg ISBN: 9789027207807ISBN 10: 9027207801 Pages: 399 Publication Date: 09 December 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Preface to the series; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Perspectives on language and cognition: From empiricism to rationalism and back again (by Sandra, Dominiek); 4. Artificial intelligence (by Gillis, Steven); 5. Categorization (by Rosch, Eleanor); 6. Cerebral division of labour in verbal communication (by Paradis, Michel); 7. Cognitive grammar (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 8. Cognitive science (by Coulson, Seana); 9. Comprehension vs. production (by Cutting, J. Cooper); 10. Connectionism (by Weijters, Ton); 11. Consciousness and language (by Chafe, Wallace); 12. Developmental psychology (by Ervin-Tripp, Susan M.); 13. Experimentation (by Sandra, Dominiek); 14. Language acquisition (by Gillis, Steven); 15. Metalinguistic awareness (by Mertz, Elizabeth); 16. Perception and language (by Lindsay, Roger); 17. Psycholinguistics (by Sandra, Dominiek); 18. The multilingual lexicon (by Dijkstra, Ton); 19. IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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