Words and the world
Subtitle: how words capture human experience
By: Barbara C. Malt and Phillip Wolff, editors.
Contributors: Malt, Barbara C.; Wolff, Phillip M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195311129
Subjects: Psycholinguistics
Table of contents: title: The language-thought interface : an introduction / P. Wolff and B. Malt; title: Reinventing the word / A. Senghas; title: Lexicalization patterns and the world-to-words mapping / B.C. Malt, S. Gennari, and M. Imai; title: Words for parts of the body / A. Majid; title: Universals and variation in the lexicon of mental state concepts / C. Goddard; title: Force creation and possible causers across languages / P. Wolff ... [et al.]; title: The language-specificity of conceptual structure : path, fictive motion, and time relations / J. Bohnemeyer; title: Categories in mind and categories in language : do classifier categories influence conceptual structures? / M. Imai and H. Saalbach; title: Language and thought : which side are you on, anyway? / T. Regier ... [et al.]; title: Relatively speaking : an account of the relationship between language and thought in the color domain / D. Roberson and J.R. Hanley; title: Worlds without words : commensurability and causality in language, culture, and cognition / P. Gordon; title: A world of relations : relational words / - J. Parish-Morris ... [et al.]; title: Learning a language the way it is : conventionality and semantic domains / E.V. Clark; title: Language structure, lexical meaning, and cognition : Whorf and Vygotsky revisited / J.A. Lucy; title: How words capture visual experience : the perspective from cognitive neuroscience / D. Kemmerer.