Words and the Mind [electronic resource] : How words capture human experience
Malt, Barbara.
Wolff, Phillip.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. However, as we learn more about the semantics of various languages, we are faced with an interesting problem. Different languages seem to be telling us different stories about the mind. For example, important distinctions made in one language are not necessarily made in others. What are we to make of these cross-linguistic differences? How do they arise? Are they created by purely linguistic processes operating over the c
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Table of Contents; I. The Language-Thought Interface: An Introduction; 1. Reinventing the Word; 2. Lexicalization Patterns and the World-to-Words Mapping; 3. Words for Parts of the Body; 4. Universals and Variation in the Lexicon of Mental State Concepts; 5. Force Creation and Possible Causers across Languages; 6. The Language-Specificity of Conceptual Structure: Path, Fictive Motion, and Time Relations; 7. Categories in Mind and Categories in Language: Do Classifier Categories Influence Conceptual Structures?; 8. Language and Thought: Which Side Are You on, Anyway?
9. Relatively Speaking: An Account of the Relationship between Language and Thought in the Color Domain10. Worlds without Words: Commensurability and Causality in Language, Culture, and Cognition; 11. A World of Relations: Relational Words; 12. Learning a Language the Way It Is: Conventionality and Semantic Domains; 13. Language Structure, Lexical Meaning, and Cognition: Whorf and Vygotsky Revisited; 14. How Words Capture Visual Experience: The Perspective from Cognitive Neuroscience; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A
BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. However, as we learn more about the semantics of various languages, we are faced with an interesting problem. Different languages seem to be telling us different stories about the mind. For example, important distinctions made in one language are not necessarily made in others. What are we to make of these cross-linguistic differences? How do they arise? Are they created by purely linguistic processes operating over the c
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Linguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics
Philology & Linguistics
Languages & Literatures