Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis: From Non-Realist Linguistics to a Realistic Language Science - Couverture souple

Kravchenko, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3631566476 ISBN 13 : 9783631566473

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2008

Synopsis

This book is an attempt to re-evaluate some basic assumptions about language, communication, and cognition in the light of the new epistemology of autopoiesis as the theory of the living. Starting with a critique of common myths about language and communication, the author goes on to argue for a new understanding of language and cognition as functional adaptive activities in a consensual domain of interactions. He shows that such understanding is, in fact, what marks a variety of theoretical and empirical frameworks in contemporary non-Cartesian cognitive science ; thus, cognitive science is in the process of working out new epistemological foundations for the study of language and cognition. In Part Two, the traditional concept of grammar is reassessed from the vantage point of autopoietic epistemology, and an analysis of specific grammatical phenomena in English and Russian is undertaken, revealing common cognitive mechanisms at work in linguistic categories.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Alexander Kravchenko is Chair of the English Department at Baikal National University of Economics and Law (BNUEL), Russia. His research interests include the biology of language and cognition, semiotics, cognitive grammar, and applied cognitive linguistics (EFL/TESOL).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631566476
• ISBN 13: 9783631566473
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible