Language in the brain critical assessments Fred C.C. Peng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peng, Fred C. C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurolinguistics.

Brain.

Language and languages--Origin.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book assesses current assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, from the perspective of neurolinguistics, which is based on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Fred C. C. Peng argues that language is behaviour, which has evolved in human genetics through time. Like all behaviours, language utilises many body parts which are controlled by the cortical and subcortical structures of the brain. Language in the brain is memory-governed, meaning-centred, and multifaceted. This view is a challenge to conventional neuroscience, which sees language and speech as separate entities; such a convention is not consistent with how the brain functions. Dr Peng's study of language in the brain has wide-reaching implications for the study of language disorders, neurolinguistics, and psycholinguistics in dealing with dementia, aphasia, and schizophrenia. This cutting-edge research monograph presents challenging new insights in the field of neuroscience to a linguistic audience and will also benefit neuroscientists. It will be essential reading for academics researching any aspect of language and the brain.

Contents:

Introduction

I. What Is Language?

1.A Brief History of Linguistics: What Went Wrong?

2. Historical Perspective from the Point of View of Semiotics

3. Historical Perspective from the Medical and Paramedical Point of View

II. What Can Be Done about the Current Situations?

4. A Mild Proposal

III. The Individual Aspect of Parole

5. Language Behavior and Body Movements

6. The Physical Basis of Life

7. Embryonic Development of the Nervous System

8. Fetal Development of the Nervous System

9. Phylogenic and Ontogenic Origin of the Complexity of Neuronal Circuitry

10. Species-Specific Function of the Human Vocal Apparatus

11. Structural Divisions of the Nervous System

IV. The Individual Aspect of Langue

12. Language in the Brain is Memory-Governed

13. Language in the Brain is Meaning-Centered

14. Language in the Brain is Multifaceted

15. Language in the Brain is Stratified

16. Evolution of Language: What Evolved?

17. Cerebral Dominance and Cerebral Laterality; Fact or Fiction?

V. Production and Reception

18. Construction of Meaning: Mapping of Content onto Expression

19. Reconstruction of Meaning: Coupling of Expression and Content

VI. Summary and Conclusion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [308]-314) and indexes

ISBN:

9780826487017

9786611295035

9781474211918

1474211917

9781281295033

1281295035

9781847142030

1847142036

OCLC:

290571952