Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind - Couverture souple

Wiese, Heike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521108659 ISBN 13 : 9780521108652

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

What constitutes our number concept? What makes it possible for us to employ numbers the way we do; which mental faculties contribute to our grasp of numbers? What do we share with other species, and what is specific to humans? How does our language faculty come into the picture? This 2003 book addresses these questions and discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty, providing psychological, linguistic and philosophical perspectives on number, its evolution and its development in children. Heike Wiese argues that language as a human faculty plays a crucial role in the emergence of systematic numerical thinking. She characterises number sequences as powerful and highly flexible mental tools that are unique to humans and shows that it is language that enables us to go beyond the perception of numerosity and to develop such mental tools.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Heike Weiss is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for German Linguistics and Language, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has published in the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, and didactics of mathematics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521108659
• ISBN 13: 9780521108652
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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