Boeckx Language in Cognition

Uncovering Mental Structures and the Rules Behind Them
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1005-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

This textbook explores the ways in which language informs thestructure and function of the human mind, offering a point ofentry into the fascinating territory of cognitive science. Focusingmainly on syntactic issues, Language in Cognition is aunique contribution to this burgeoning field of study.
* Guides undergraduate students through the core questions oflinguistics and cognitive science, and provides tools that willhelp them think about the field in a structured way
* Uses the study of language and how language informs thestructure and function of the human mind to introduce the majorideas in modern cognitive science, including its history andcontroversies
* Explores questions such as: what does it mean to say thatlinguistics is part of the cognitive sciences; how do the coreproperties of language compare with the core properties of otherhuman cognitive abilities such as vision, music, mathematics, andother mental building blocks; and what is the relationship betweenlanguage and thought?
* Includes an indispensable study guide as well as extensivereferences to encourage further independent study

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boeckx, Cedric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
ProloguePart I: Ever Since Chomsky:
1. Mind Matters: Chomsky's Dangerous Idea.
2. The Mechanization of the Mind Picture.
3. How the Mind Grows: From Meno to NoamPart II: Unweaving theSentence:
4. Mental Chemistry.
5. The Variety of Linguistic Experience: The Towers of Babel andPisa.
6. All Roads Lead to Universal GrammarPart III: The MentalFoundations of Behavior:
7. Making Sense of Meaning: An Instruction Manual.
8. Wonderful Mental Life: Unthinkable without Language.
9. Grammar Caught in the ActPart IV: Missing Links:
10. The (Mis)Measure of Mind.
11. Homo Combinans.
12. Computational Organology.
Epilogue.
Notes.
Guide to Further Study.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Most recently he was Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Understanding Minimalist Syntax (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Bare Syntax (2008); and the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics.