Cognition and pragmatics / edited by Dominiek Sandra, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandra, Dominiek, 1960-

Östman, Jan-Ola.

Verschueren, Jef.

Series:

Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; 3.

Handbook of pragmatics highlights, 1877-654X ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Pragmatics.

Cognition--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Cognition.

Linguistics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

xvi, 399 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this third volume focuses on the interface between language and cognition. Language use is impossible without the mobilization of a large variety of cognitive processes, each serving a different purpose. During the last half century cognitive approaches to language have been particularly successful, and the broad spectrum of contributions to this volume testify to this success. As cognitive approaches to language are by definition a subset of the larger enterprise of cognitive science, a contribution on this general topic sets the stage. This is joined by a chapter on cognitive grammar, a theoretical study of the architecture of human language that is deeply inspired by general cognitive principles. A chapter on experimentation offers a crash-course on basic issues of experimental design and on the rationale behind statistical testing in general and the most important statistical tests in particular, offering a methodological toolkit for understanding many of the other contributions. Different chapters cover a broad range of topics: language acquisition, psycholinguistics, specialized topics within the latter field (e.g. the bilingual mental lexicon, categorization), and aspects of language awareness. Some chapters home in on what have become indispensible perspectives on the cognitive underpinnings of language: the way language is represented and processed in the human brain and simulation studies. The ever-growing success of the latter type of studies is exemplified, for instance, by the highly flourishing connectionist tradition and

the more general paradigm of artificial intelligence, each of which is dealt with in a separate contribution.

Contents:

Preface to the series

Acknowledgements

Perspectives on language and cognition: from empiricism to rationalism and back again / Dominiek Sandra

Artificial intelligence / Steven Gillis, Walter Daelemans & Koenraad DeSmedt

Categorization / Eleanor Rosch

Cerebral division of labour in verbal communication / Michel Paradis

Cognitive grammar / Ronald W. Langacker

Cognitive science / Seana Coulson & Teenie Matlock

Comprehension vs. production / J. Cooper Cutting

Connectionism / Ton Weijters & Antal van denBosch

Consciousness and language / Wallace Chafe

Developmental psychology / Susan M. Ervin-Tripp

Experimentation / Dominiek Sandra

Language acquisition / Steven Gillis & Dorit Ravid

Metalinguistic awareness / Elizabeth Mertz & Jonathan Yovel

Perception and language / Roger Lindsay

Psycholinguistics / Dominiek Sandra

The multilingual lexicon / Ton Dijkstra

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612445019

9781282445017

1282445014

9789027289209

9027289204

OCLC:

593287136