Language And Thinking
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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 | : 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 | : L. S. Vygotskii |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Judith Greene |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1315524430 |
Originally published in 1875, this book discusses thinking and language and traces the development of different pscyological approaches, assessing their theoretical significance and the experimental evidence behind them. It ends by drawing together the various lines of argument to arrive at some general conclusions about language and thought, since it clearly emerges that the two are inextricably linked.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
In this collection of Chomsky's lectures, the first three essays describe linguistic contributions to the study of the mind and the last three discuss the relationship among linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
Author | : Aneta Pavlenko |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2011-01-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1847694934 |
Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlocking the mysteries surrounding thinking and speaking in bi- and multilingual speakers. If languages influence the way we think, what happens to those who speak more than one language? And if they do not, how can we explain the difficulties second language learners experience in mapping new words and structures onto real-world referents? The contributors to this volume put forth a novel approach to second language learning, presenting it as a process that involves conceptual development and restructuring, and not simply the mapping of new forms onto pre-existing meanings.
Author | : Tim John Moore |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1441157506 |
Author | : Leda Berio |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2021-08-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 311074855X |
Our ability to attribute mental states to others ("to mentalize") has been the subject of philosophical and psychological studies for a very long time, yet the role of language acquisition in the development of our mentalizing abilities has been largely understudied. This book addresses this gap in the philosophical literature. The book presents an account of how false belief reasoning is impacted by language acquisition, and it does so by placing it in the larger context of the issue, how language impacts cognition in general. The work provides the reader with detailed and critical literature reviews, and draws on them to argue that language acquisition helps false belief reasoning by boosting the ability to create schemata that facilitate processing of information in some social contexts. According to this framework, it is a combination of syntactic clues and cultural narratives that helps the child to solve the classic false belief task. The book provides a novel, original account of how language helps false belief reasoning, while also giving the reader a broad, precise and well-documented picture of the debate around some of the most fundamental issues in social cognition.
Author | : Kenneth S. Goodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A. H. Bloom |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317769910 |
First published in 1981. Using his fourteen years of interaction with the Chinese language and its speakers the author has noted certain important differences between the Chinese mode of speaking and thinking and that of speakers of English. This study looks at the impact of these differences looking at how they increase the sensitivity to what Chinese speakers mean; how they heighten awareness of the biases implicit in the way English speakers speak and think; and how they challenge the assumption, currently lurking within the field of psychology, that languages have little impact on the shaping of cognitive life.