Lucy J.

Lucy J.
Author: Jan Sparkman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456858548

Language and Bilingual Cognition

Language and Bilingual Cognition
Author: Reader in Applied Linguistics Vivian Cook
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2011-04-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113686640X

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals, bringing together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines . It is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in language and cognition, or in bilingualism and second languages.

Understanding Your Moods When You're Expecting

Understanding Your Moods When You're Expecting
Author: Lucy J. Puryear
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780618341078

A nationally recognized expert on women's reproductive mental health offers the first book on the emotional passages of pregnant women.

Words and the Mind

Words and the Mind
Author: Barbara Malt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195311124

The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. However, as we learn more about the semantics of various languages, we are faced with an interesting problem. Different languages seem to be telling us different stories about the mind. For example, important distinctions made in one language are not necessarily made in others. What are we to make of these cross-linguistic differences? How do they arise? Are they created by purely linguistic processes operating over the course of language evolution? Or do they reflect fundamental differences in thought? In this sea of differences, are there any semantic universals? Which categories might be given by the genes, which by culture, and which by language? And what might the cross-linguistic similarities and differences contribute to our understanding of conceptual and linguistic development? The kinds of mapping principles, structures, and processes that link language and non-linguistic knowledge must accommodate not just one language but the rich diversity that has been uncovered.The integration of knowledge and methodologies necessary for real progress in answering these questions has happened only recently, as experimental approaches have been applied to the cross-linguistic study of word meaning. In Words and the Mind, Barbara Malt and Phillip Wolff present evidence from the leading researchers who are carrying out this empirical work on topics as diverse as spatial relations, events, emotion terms, motion events, objects, body-part terms, causation, color categories, and relational categories. By bringing them together, Malt and Wolff highlight some of the most exciting cross-linguistic and cross-cultural work on the language-thought interface, from a broad array of fields including linguistics, anthropology, cognitive and developmental psychology, and cognitive neuropsychology. Their results provide some answers to these questions and new perspectives on the issues surrounding them.

The Color Guard

The Color Guard
Author: Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2024-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385564247

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.