Download e-book for kindle: Event Representation in Language and Cognition (Language by Jürgen Bohnemeyer,Eric Pederson

By Jürgen Bohnemeyer,Eric Pederson

ISBN-10: 052189834X

ISBN-13: 9780521898348

ISBN-10: 1107629861

ISBN-13: 9781107629868

occasion illustration in Language and Cognition examines new study into how the brain bargains with the adventure of occasions. Empirical study into the cognitive methods concerned while humans view occasions and speak about them remains to be a tender box. The chapters through prime specialists draw on information from the outline of occasions in spoken and signed languages, first and moment language acquisition, co-speech gesture and eye events in the course of language construction, and from non-linguistic categorization and different projects. The e-book highlights newly chanced on proof for the way notion, concept, and language constrain one another within the adventure of occasions. it will likely be of specific curiosity to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers, in addition to to somebody drawn to the illustration and processing of events.

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