The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume II

ISBN-13: 9780805834284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 284 str.

Michael Tomasello

Opis

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals. The account of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings (not formal devices) comprehend, produce and acquire natural languages.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Some Surprises for Psychologists. L. Talmy, Concept Structuring Systems in Language. J.W. Du Bois, Discourse and Grammar. S. Kemmer, Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories. C.E. Ford, B.A. Fox, S.A. Thompson, Social Interaction and Grammar. J. Bybee, Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization. K. van Hoek, Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference. B. Comrie, On Explaining Language Universals. M. Haspelmath, The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Cross-Linguistic Comparison. C.J. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor, Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone.

O autorze

Edited by Tomasello, Michael