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Author | : Ruth Beechick |
Publisher | : Mott Media (MI) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780880621526 |
Oral language manual for parents and teachers of kindergarten and primary children.
Author | : Dedre Gentner |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2003-03-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780262571630 |
The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently. Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought, recent theoretical and methodological advances in cognitive science have given the question new life. Research in linguistics and linguistic anthropology has revealed striking differences in cross-linguistic semantic patterns, and cognitive psychology has developed subtle techniques for studying how people represent and remember experience. It is now possible to test predictions about how a given language influences the thinking of its speakers. Language in Mind includes contributions from both skeptics and believers and from a range of fields. It contains work in cognitive psychology, cognitive development, linguistics, anthropology, and animal cognition. The topics discussed include space, number, motion, gender, theory of mind, thematic roles, and the ontological distinction between objects and substances. Contributors Melissa Bowerman, Eve Clark, Jill de Villiers, Peter de Villiers, Giyoo Hatano, Stan Kuczaj, Barbara Landau, Stephen Levinson, John Lucy, Barbara Malt, Dan Slobin, Steven Sloman, Elizabeth Spelke, and Michael Tomasello
Author | : Rachel Salisbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Abby Kaplan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110708492X |
A detailed look at language-related myths that explores both what we know and how we know it.
Author | : Kenneth S. Goodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margaret Berry Wilson |
Publisher | : Center for Responsive Schools, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2014-02-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1892989611 |
Your essential guide for teaching core competencies that every child needs for developing into a highly engaged, self-motivated learner. The Language of Learning offers a practical approach to teaching essential communication skills: Listening and understanding; Thinking before speaking; Speaking clearly and concisely; Asking thoughtful questions; Giving high-quality answers; Backing up opinions with reasons and evidence; Agreeing thoughtfully; Disagreeing respectfully.
Author | : Dorothy Holland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1987-01-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521311687 |
A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.
Author | : Stephen Gislason |
Publisher | : Persona Digital Books |
Total Pages | : 215 |
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Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1894787498 |
This is a must read book by Stephen Gislason MD who simplifies complex issues and introduces new and sometimes surprising insights. book. From the introduction. "Humans resemble other animals in their ability to communicate. Communications involve chemical senses, sounds, body language, and visual signals. Communication is all about community, sharing information, sending warning signals and fulfilling the needs of the group. Human languages combine many different expressions of communication in a complex manner. Ideas about written language tend to dominate scholarly investigations, but sounds and gestures have been more important in the evolution of communication systems. Speaking is a spontaneous feature of the brain, and all normal children will speak if they hear a language spoken; any language will do. Older infants imitate words they hear spoken and if adults engage them in conversation, will expand their vocabularies and start to make meaningful statements; Words go with gestures Young children point with a pudgy index finger and say the name their pointer indicates. Pointing and naming remains an endearing characteristic for the rest of a human life. Babies follow the path of language evolution. Their progress is from the description of the immediate and concrete objects to making abstract statements about events; The first thing you do when you are learning a language is point and name. You invent nouns. Little tykes can get a lot accomplished with their pointing finger and a few nouns. Tourists in a foreign country revert to the two-year-old strategy of pointing, naming, using pantomime to replace the verbs they do not know;" One of the most important and least recognized features of the human mind is selftalk. In adults, selftalk is described as "thinking" or “reflection.” Aristotle declared that thinking was “inner speech” and he defined the rules of logic, the proper methods of constructing relationships among statements. Selftalk is a continuous narrative feature of the mind. Through selftalk, language becomes a dominant feature of cognition. Narrative dominance enables some of the best cognitive abilities that humans display, but narrative dominance can also be disabling; The recognition that selftalk is thought resolves tedious debates about the relationship of language to cognition. It is no longer necessary to argue that the structure and content of languages influence thinking. Language is thinking.
Author | : Daniel Everett |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2010-07-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1847651224 |
Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.
Author | : Lane Greene |
Publisher | : The Economist |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1610398343 |
Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory. Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on the move. Throughout history, for every mutation, idiosyncrasy, and ubiquitous mistake, there have been countervailing rules, pronouncements and systems making some attempt to bring language to heel. From the utopian language-builder to the stereotypical grammatical stickler to the programmer trying to teach a computer to translate, Lane Greene takes the reader through a multi-disciplinary survey of the many different ways in which we attempt to control language, exploring the philosophies, motivations, and complications of each. The result is a highly readable caper that covers history, linguistics, politics, and grammar with the ease and humor of a dinner party anecdote. Talk on the Wild Side is both a guide to the great debates and controversies of usage, and a love letter to language itself. Holding it together is Greene's infectious enthusiasm for his subject. While you can walk away with the finer points of who says "whom" and the strange history of "buxom" schoolboys, most of all, it inspires awe in language itself: for its elegance, resourcefulness, and power.