Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten
A Guided Excursion Through Language
Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-316-51716-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
What is language and how does it work? The ability to use language is one of the most remarkable cognitive capacities humans possess. This book investigates, in a clear and accessible style, what is going on behind the words. Based on a rich literature of empirical research, Hilpert argues that human language emerges from a network of social and cognitive skills, such as categorization, joint attention, and analogical reasoning, which are not just used in language, but also in other domains of human cognition. Each chapter covers a different aspect of language and shows how these are all interlinked as part of a social and cognitive system, to show that ultimately, the foundations of language are not in themselves linguistic. For anyone who is curious about the human linguistic capacity, this fascinating book offers a compelling account of how language works, and how its complexity emerges from simpler components.
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1. The Forest and the Trees; 2. Discovering Meaning Together: Joint Attention; 3. I Spy With My Little Eye: Intention Reading; 4. Squares, Games, and Cups: Categorization; 5. Drunk Octopus Wants to Fight: Pattern Recognition; 6. Fill-in-the-Blank: Analogy; 7. A Bridge to New Ideas: Metaphor; 8. E Pluribus Unum: Chunking; 9. Better Together: Cooperation; 10. Practice Makes Perfect: Entrenchment; 11. One Thing Leads to Another: Association; 12. Things Left Unsaid: Statistical Preemption; 13. Two Beers, Please: Coercion; 14. Different Branches on the Same Tree: Multiple Inheritance; 15. There's No Going Back:Ggrammaticalization; 16. Revisiting the Forest; References; Index.
