What on earth, one might ask, has the complex - and sometimes obscure - philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to do with the situation facing contemporary linguistics? He wrote, after all, rather little that was specifically about language. The whole "raison d'etre" of this work is to show that Whitehead's "philosophy of organism" has a good deal to offer that is relevant to cognitive science in general and to contemporary linguistics on particular. The purpose of the work is to apply Whitehead's ideas - interpreted in a certain light - to problems concerning the nature of the "content" of...
What on earth, one might ask, has the complex - and sometimes obscure - philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to do with the situation facing contempor...
This is an engaging study of the mental lexicon: the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. Fortescue attempts to narrow the gap between the results of experimental neurology and the concerns of theoretical linguistics in the area of lexical semantics. The prime goal as regards linguistic theory is to show how matters of lexical organization can be analysed and discussed within a neurologically informed framework that is both adaptable and constrained. It combines the perspectives of distributed network modelling and linguistic...
This is an engaging study of the mental lexicon: the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. Fortes...
