Thought-based linguistics : how languages turn thoughts into sounds /
Chafe, Wallace L.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Preliminaries -- Background -- Ground rules -- Part II. Thoughts and their properties -- The priority of thoughts -- The path from a thought to a sound -- How thoughts are structured -- How thoughts are experienced -- How thoughts are shared -- How thoughts flow through time -- Part III. Verbalization illustrated -- From a thought to a sound in English -- From a thought to a sound in a polysynthetic language -- Part IV. Related issues -- The translation paradox -- Repeated verbalizations of the same thought -- Rethinking whorf -- Lessons from literature -- Part V. Common ways of orienting thoughts -- Small numbers and subitizing -- Thoughts and gender -- Time, tense, memory, and imagination -- Relating ideas to reality -- Part VI. The emotional component of thoughts -- Emotional involvement in a conversation -- The feeling of nonseriousness -- How language can be beautiful.
Cognitive grammar.
Auditory perception.
Language acquisition.
Psychlinguistics.
Auditory perception.
Cognitive grammar.
Language acquisition.