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Mappings in Thought and Language

Author : Gilles Fauconnier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599535
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Mappings in Thought and Language by : Gilles Fauconnier

Download or read book Mappings in Thought and Language written by Gilles Fauconnier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich array of attested data in ordinary language, humor, action and design, science, and narratives. Phenomena that receive attention include counterfactuals; time, tense, and mood; opacity; metaphor; fictive motion; grammatical constructions; quantification over cognitive domains.

Cognitive Mappings for Language and Thought

Author : Gilles Fauconnier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Mappings for Language and Thought written by Gilles Fauconnier and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mapping the Mind

Author : Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429931
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Mind written by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays introducing the reader to `domain-specificity'.

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Barbara Dancygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108146139
Total Pages : 1427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by : Barbara Dancygier

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics written by Barbara Dancygier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 1427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.

Introducing Language and Cognition

Author : Michael Sharwood Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107152895
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Language and Cognition written by Michael Sharwood Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers something unique - a perspective of mind and language where diverse topics are carefully integrated within one framework.

Thinking Maps

Author : David Hyerle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884582349
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Maps written by David Hyerle and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metonymy in Language and Thought

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027223562
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis Metonymy in Language and Thought by : Klaus-Uwe Panther

Download or read book Metonymy in Language and Thought written by Klaus-Uwe Panther and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a figure of thought, underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models. The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.

Don't Think of an Elephant!

Author : George Lakoff
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1920769455
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Don't Think of an Elephant! written by George Lakoff and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Think of An Elephant is the antidote to decades of conservative strategising and the right's stranglehold on political dialogue. More specifically, it is the definitive handbook for understanding and communicating effectively about key social and political issues. George Lakoff explains in detail exactly how the right has managed to co-opt traditional values in order to popularise its political agenda. He also provides examples of how the centre-left can address the community's core values and re-frame political debate to establish a civil discourse that reinforces progressive positions. Don't Think of An Elephant provides a compelling linguistic analysis of political campaigning. But, more importantly, it demonstrates that real political values and ideas must provide the foundation for political progress by the centre-left.

Irony in Language and Thought

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0805860622
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Irony in Language and Thought written by Raymond W. Gibbs and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irony in Language and Thought assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book. A much-needed resource in the area of figurative language, this volume centers on a theme from cognitive science - that irony is a fundamental way of thinking about the human experience. The editors lend perspective in the form of opening and closing chapters, which enable readers to see how such works have furthered the field, as well as to inspire present and future scholars. Featured articles focus on the following topics: theories of irony, addressing primarily comprehension of its verbal form context in irony comprehension social functions of irony the development of irony understanding situational irony. Scholars and students in psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, anthropology, artificial intelligence, art, and communications will consider this book an excellent resource. It serves as an ideal supplement in courses that present major ideas in language and thought.

Language and Thought

Author : Judith Hartland
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781854330598
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Language and Thought written by Judith Hartland and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Words and the Mind

Author : Barbara Malt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199718644
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Words and the Mind written by Barbara Malt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 course of language evolution? Or do they reflect fundamental differences in thought? In this sea of differences, are there any semantic universals? Which categories might be given by the genes, which by culture, and which by language? And what might the cross-linguistic similarities and differences contribute to our understanding of conceptual and linguistic development? The kinds of mapping principles, structures, and processes that link language and non-linguistic knowledge must accommodate not just one language but the rich diversity that has been uncovered. The integration of knowledge and methodologies necessary for real progress in answering these questions has happened only recently, as experimental approaches have been applied to the cross-linguistic study of word meaning. In Words and the Mind, Barbara Malt and Phillip Wolff present evidence from the leading researchers who are carrying out this empirical work on topics as diverse as spatial relations, events, emotion terms, motion events, objects, body-part terms, causation, color categories, and relational categories. By bringing them together, Malt and Wolff highlight some of the most exciting cross-linguistic and cross-cultural work on the language-thought interface, from a broad array of fields including linguistics, anthropology, cognitive and developmental psychology, and cognitive neuropsychology. Their results provide some answers to these questions and new perspectives on the issues surrounding them.

Perspectives on Language and Thought

Author : Susan A. Gelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521374972
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Language and Thought written by Susan A. Gelman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents current observational and experimental research on the links between thought and language in such children.

The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Author : Michael Spivey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536141
Total Pages : 1297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics written by Michael Spivey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 1297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our ability to speak, write, understand speech and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going on around them, but by trailblazers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. Some topics discussed include how children learn language, how average adults understand and produce language, how language is represented in the brain, how brain-damaged individuals perform in terms of their language abilities and computer-based models of language and meaning. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates who are interested in the recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

Author : W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy
Publisher : Infinite Study
ISBN 13 : 1931233764
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps written by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an essential need for an alternative system that could infuse into itself a representation of the real world. Out of this need arose the system of Neutrosophy (the philosophy of neutralities, introduced by FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE), and its connected logic Neutrosophic Logic, which is a further generalization of the theory of Fuzzy Logic. In this book we study the concepts of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) and their Neutrosophic analogue, the Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCMs). Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy structures that strongly resemble neural networks, and they have powerful and far-reaching consequences as a mathematical tool for modeling complex systems. Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps are generalizations of FCMs, and their unique feature is the ability to handle indeterminacy in relations between two concepts thereby bringing greater sensitivity into the results. Some of the varied applications of FCMs and NCMs which has been explained by us, in this book, include: modeling of supervisory systems; design of hybrid models for complex systems; mobile robots and in intimate technology such as office plants; analysis of business performance assessment; formalism debate and legal rules; creating metabolic and regulatory network models; traffic and transportation problems; medical diagnostics; simulation of strategic planning process in intelligent systems; specific language impairment; web-mining inference application; child labor problem; industrial relations: between employer and employee, maximizing production and profit; decision support in intelligent intrusion detection system; hyper-knowledge representation in strategy formation; female infanticide; depression in terminally ill patients and finally, in the theory of community mobilization and women empowerment relative to the AIDS epidemic.

Figurative Language and Thought

Author : Albert N. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198026951
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Figurative Language and Thought written by Albert N. Katz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind and the processes that operate on them. In Figurative Language and Thought, internationally recognized experts in the field of figurative language, Albert Katz, Mark Turner, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., and Cristina Cacciari, provide a coherent and focused debate on the subject. The book's authors discuss a variety of fundamental questions, including: What can figures of speech tell us about the structure of the conceptual system? If and how should we distinguish the literal from the nonliteral in our theories of language and thought? Are we primarily figurative thinkers and consequently figurative language users or the other way around? Why do we prefer to speak metaphorically in everyday conversation, when literal options may be available for use? Is metaphor the only vehicle through which we can understand abstract concepts? What role do cultural and social factors play in our comprehension of figurative language? These and related questions are raised and argued in an integrative look at the role of nonliteral language in cognition. This volume, a part of Counterpoints series, will be thought-provoking reading for a wide range of cognitive psychologists, linguists, and philosophers.

Figurative Language and Thought

Author : Albert N. Katz Professor of Psychology University of Western Ontario
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195355148
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Figurative Language and Thought written by Albert N. Katz Professor of Psychology University of Western Ontario and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-08-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind and the processes that operate on them. In Figurative Language and Thought, internationally recognized experts in the field of figurative language, Albert Katz, Mark Turner, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., and Cristina Cacciari, provide a coherent and focused debate on the subject. The book's authors discuss a variety of fundamental questions, including: What can figures of speech tell us about the structure of the conceptual system? If and how should we distinguish the literal from the nonliteral in our theories of language and thought? Are we primarily figurative thinkers and consequently figurative language users or the other way around? Why do we prefer to speak metaphorically in everyday conversation, when literal options may be available for use? Is metaphor the only vehicle through which we can understand abstract concepts? What role do cultural and social factors play in our comprehension of figurative language? These and related questions are raised and argued in an integrative look at the role of nonliteral language in cognition. This volume, a part of Counterpoints series, will be thought-provoking reading for a wide range of cognitive psychologists, linguists, and philosophers.

Space in Language and Cognition

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521011969
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Space in Language and Cognition written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a typology of spatial coordinate systems in language and cognition, it is shown that not all languages use all types, and that non-linguistic cognition mirrors the systems available in the local language. The book reports on collaborative, interdisciplinary research, involving anthropologists, linguists and psychologists, conducted in many languages and cultures around the world, which establishes this robust correlation. The overall results suggest that thinking in the cognitive sciences underestimates the transformative power of language on thinking. The book will be of interest to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers, and especially to students of spatial cognition.