Mental states Volume 2, Language and cognitive structure Volume 2, Language and cognitive structure /
The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give in...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co
c2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 93. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798377606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mental States. Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- 1. Mental categories in natural languages
- 2. A culture-neutral metalanguage for mental state concepts
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Semantic primes for mental states
- 3 Explicating emotion terms: "Surprise" in English and Malay
- 4 Explicating epistemic verbs: English vs. Swedish
- 5 Explicating ethnopsychological constructs: English, Malay and Korean
- 6 Implications and conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Appendix
- 3. Shape and colour in language and thought
- 1 Languages as the mirror of the mind - and as mirrors of different, culturally shaped, "minds"
- 2 The importance of studying the meaning of words
- 3 Explicating abstract concepts and concrete concepts
- 4 Exploring the concept of shape
- 5 The importance of hands in the conceptualisation of the world
- 6 Shape vs. dimensions
- 7 What the two Burarra terms mean and why they are not "colour" terms
- References
- 4. Universal and language-specific aspects of "propositional attitudes"
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theories of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage and the Moscow School of Semantics compared
- 3 Dumat' and sčitat' in the canonical contexts of the primitive think
- 4 The semantics of sčitat'
- 5 Sčitat' in a broader linguistic and cultural context
- 6 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 5. Mental states reflected in cognitive lexemes related to memory
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Mental verbs in Korean
- 3 kiekha- 'remember'
- 4 kiekna- 'memory comes, remember'
- 5 chwuekha- 'reminisce'
- 6 Conclusion
- Romanisation and abbreviations in interlinear glosses
- Typographical conventions
- Corpus used for Korean examples
- References
- Appendix
- 6. Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A taste of Chinese 'taste'-related words
- 3 Research methodology
- 4 Semantic analysis of Chinese 'taste' terms
- 5 Theoretical and methodological implications
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 7. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Autism
- 3 Autism and narrative
- 4 This case study
- 5 A simple two-part model of knowledge state management: Personal narrative
- 6 Lincoln's spontaneous written story retelling
- 7 Episodic macrostructure of the retold stories
- 8 Perspective
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Appendix
- 8. Interaction between language and cognition in language development
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background context
- 3 Resurgence of interest in linguistic relativity
- 4 Thinking-for-speaking
- 5 The temporal domain
- 6 The Thai aspectual system
- 7 The Thai frog story data
- 8 Typological and language-specific patterns
- References
- 9. What figurative language development reveals about the mind
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The late development view
- 3 The early development view - recent work
- 4 The development of hyperbole
- 5 Why figurative language cognition should develop early: Theory of Mind
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- 10. Would you rather 'embert a cudsert' or' cudsert an embert'?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dictionary analysis
- 3 Readers' sensitivity to orthographic cues
- 4 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix A
- 11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern Australia
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Berlin folk taxonomic system
- 3 Indigenous Australian folk taxonomies
- 4 Characteristics of names for individuals and kinds
- 5 Conclusion: Why are the taxonomic systems of Aboriginal societies so different to that of English?
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements.
- References
- 12. Events masquerading as entities
- 1 Introduction
- 2 An introduction to some relevant features of Mawng
- 3 The three types of complement clauses in Mawng
- 4 Pseudorelatives in French and Mawng
- 5 Relative clauses and focus sentences
- 6 Towards a discourse-based account of the Mawng pseudorelative
- 7 Conclusions
- Abbreviations
- References
- 13. Word and construction as units of categorization
- 1 Introduction: Word, category, polysemy, construction
- 2 Expressing change in Estonian: An overview
- 3 Change-of-state constructions in Estonian
- 4 The change-of-state senses of Estonian core verbs
- 5 Principles for categorizing change in Estonian
- 6 Conclusion
- Abbrevations
- References
- 14. Categories and concepts in phonology
- 1 The role of concepts
- 2 What is a concept?
- 3 What about words?
- 4 Why study concepts?
- 5 Theorising concepts
- 6 The Natural Attitude
- 7 A method of analysis
- 8 Metalanguage
- 9 Phonological terms
- 10 Acquisition of phonological terms
- 11 Abstractness of phonological terms
- 12 Implications for theory
- 13 Implications for practice
- 14 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 15. You can run, but: Another look at linguistic relativity
- 1 What's the argument?
- 2 The role of positive and negative instances
- 3 Examples
- 4 Point-light displays
- 5 Verbs of motion
- 6 What can we conclude?
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Name index
- Language index
- Subject index
- Table of contents of volume 1
- Studies in Language Companion Series.
