Cognition and Sentence Production: A Cross-Linguistic Study - Couverture souple

Sridhar, S.N. N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1461289270 ISBN 13 : 9781461289272

Editeur : Springer, 2011

Synopsis

The developments in linguistic theory over the last three decades have given us a better understanding of the formal properties of language. However, as the truism goes, language does not exist in a vacuum. It in- teracts with a cognitive system that involves much more than language and functions as the primary instrument of human communication. A theory of language must, therefore, be based on an integration of its for- mal properties with its cognitive and communicative dimensions. The present work is offered as the modest contribution to this research paradigm. This book is a revised and slightly enlarged version of my doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In writing the original version, I had the privilege of working with Professor Charles E. Osgood, who is widely recognized as the founder and one of the leading figures of modern psycholinguistics. I have benefited from ex- tensive and stimulating discussions with him, not only on this topic but in the development of his theory of language performance in general (see his Lectures on Language Performance, 1980, in this series). However, the re- sponsibility for the particular formulations of the theory, hypotheses, in- terpretations, and conclusions found in this work-which have been in- fluenced, no doubt, by my training as a linguist, rather than as a psychologist-are my own.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book presents the findings of a major cross-linguistic experiment in sentence production, involving 10 languages from around the world. It demonstrates that many aspects of language (including word- and clause- order, topicalization, spatial deixis, referential elaboration, among others) are governed by universal cognitive principles of perception, attention, and communication. The findings of this study, based on a linguistically sophisticated psychological theory and a careful, extensive experimental design, bear on such important issues as the bases of linguistic universals, functionalist theories of language, the relationship between language and thought, and the psychological reality of pragmatic (communicative) principles. This book should therefore be of interest to researchers in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy of language, anthropology, and communication.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1461289270
• ISBN 13: 9781461289272
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
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