Language and Human Understanding / David Braine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braine, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics--History.

Psycholinguistics.

Communication--History.

Communication.

Typology (Linguistics).

Cognitive grammar--History.

Cognitive grammar.

Comparative linguistics--History.

Comparative linguistics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (812 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language.Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, Braine draws on insights from all these fields, sifting through the discordant schools of linguists.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction and Overview""; ""Part One. Words and Their Dynamism in the Expression of Meaning""; ""I. Two Levels of Meaning""; ""II. The Salience of Words and Our Adventurousness in Using Them""; ""III. Sentences, Sense, and the Objects of Linguistic Science""; ""IV. The Indivisibility of the Human Capacity for Language""; ""V. Scientific Method and the Significance of Mathematics for Linguistics""; ""Part Two. The Shape of the Psychology Required for Explaining the Learning and Use of Language""

""VI. Human and Animal Organisms as Systems Dynamically Geared to the Environment""""VII. Extending the Dynamic and Environment-Geared Model of Human Functioning to the Psychology of Language""; ""VIII. Understanding as Essential to Explaining Speech: Resisting the Drag Towards Physicalism""; ""Part Three. Rewriting the Philosophy of Grammar and Restoring Unity to the Theory of Language""; ""IX. Explaining the Semantic Unity of the Sentence: The Shared Roots of the Topic/Comment, Subject/Predicate, and Noun/Verb Distinctions""

""X. The Gulf between Saying and Naming, the Verbal and the Nominal: ""Force""-Potential as Integral to ""Sense""""""XI. The Notion of Subject and the Functional Organization of the Clause""; ""XII. Marrying Philosophy and Grammar in Distinguishing Types of Noun Expression""; ""XIII. Varied Systems of Grammaticalization�Reviewing the Phenomena""; ""XIV. The Verb Gives Sentences Their Dynamic Character and Shapes Their Syntactic Structure""; ""XV. The Distorted Treatment of Phrase Theory in Modern Formal Grammar""; ""General Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Names""

""Subject Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2175-7

OCLC:

879627655