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Peter Lang AG Metonymie zwischen Theorie und Empirie
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Peter Lang AG Anger as amoral emotion
Book SynopsisThe work presents anger as a manifested signal of dissatisfaction and moral resistance towards perceived injustice, disruptions of relationships, and trust, as well as a call for the restoration of the original relationship and for rectification.
£31.50
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Cognitive Semantic and Evolutionary Aspects of
Book SynopsisThe book offers a systematic study of selected aesthetic and moral emotions, such as beauty, admiration, disgust, anger, guilt, and the feeling of (in)justice. The authors contemplate the possibilities of their conceptual grasp and describe their psychosomatic phenomena from a ?rst-person perspective. They focus on a hermeneutic-phenomenological-existential analysis of the fundamental elements, structure, and signi?cance of these types of emotions in both individual and collective human experiences. Additionally, they provide interdisciplinary insights into the subject, enabling the comprehension of these emotional states from various perspectives, including linguistic, psychological, philosophical, cognitive scienti?c, legal, and theological. They document that we are not rational systems that have emotions, but rather emotional systems that occasionally behave rationally. The text simultaneously outlines a new theory of emotions and explores the possibilities for their linguistic apprehension through the geometry of thought.
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Explizite und implizite Emotionsmanifestationen
Book SynopsisSeit der Veröffentlichung von Antonio Damasios Descartes' Error steht fest, dass Emotion und Kognition untrennbar miteinander verbunden sind. Obschon sich diese Erkenntnis in der Neurowissenschaft längst etabliert hat, wurde die Thematik der Emotionen in der Sprachwissenschaft lange vernachlässigt. Anhand einer deutsch-italienischen Korpusanalyse von Facebook-Kommentaren, die Reaktionen auf den Wahlsieg Donald Trumps im Jahr 2016 darstellen, widmet sich diese Studie der systematischen Untersuchung der Rolle von Emotionen in der Sprache. Als theoretische Grundlage dient die Kritische Kognitionslinguistik (KKL), die kognitive und pragmatische Perspektiven miteinander verbindet. Der Fokus der Analyse liegt auf der Entwicklung eines integrativen Ansatzes, der sowohl explizite als auch implizite Emotionsmarker in sprachlichen Äußerungen berücksichtigt. Das Korpus mit Daten aus zwei Sprachen ermöglicht die Erforschung kontrastiver Fragestellungen sowie die Dekonstruktion einiger Stereotype.
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Universitatsverlag Winter Erwerb Von Informationsstrukturellen Fahigkeiten:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Multimodale Instruktionen in Der Physiotherapie:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Sprachproduktion
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Mehrsprachigkeit aus neurolinguistischer Sicht
Book SynopsisWas passiert in unserem Gehirn, wenn wir mehrsprachig aufwachsen? Dieser spannenden Fragestellung widmet sich die vorliegende Studie. Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen einer funktionellen Magnet-Resonanz-Tomographie von 20 viersprachigen ladinischen Probanden, die am Universitätsklinikum in Ulm durchgeführt wurde, wird eine detaillierte Beschreibung und Auswertung der Gehirnaktivitäten während eines Bilder-Benennungstests vorgelegt, der in den Sprachen Ladinisch, Italienisch, Deutsch und Englisch absolviert wurde. Das Ergebnis der Studie zeigt, dass die verschiedenen Sprachen eine sich großteils überlappende Gehirnaktivierung aufweisen, die dem Bilderbenennungs- und dem Sprachverarbeitungsprozess als solchen zugrunde liegt, während die neuronale Aktivität, die mit den einzelnen Sprachen korreliert, nur anhand weniger signifikanter Unterschiede festzuhalten ist. Die Untersuchung betritt insofern Neuland, als es sich bei der vorliegenden Studie um die erste dieser Art mit einer homogenen, viersprachigen Probandengruppe handelt. Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die an Sprache(n) interessiert sind.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Mehrsprachigkeit aus neurolinguistischer Sicht
Book SynopsisWas passiert in unserem Gehirn, wenn wir mehrsprachig aufwachsen? Dieser spannenden Fragestellung widmet sich die vorliegende Studie. Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen einer funktionellen Magnet-Resonanz-Tomographie von 20 viersprachigen ladinischen Probanden, die am Universitätsklinikum in Ulm durchgeführt wurde, wird eine detaillierte Beschreibung und Auswertung der Gehirnaktivitäten während eines Bilder-Benennungstests vorgelegt, der in den Sprachen Ladinisch, Italienisch, Deutsch und Englisch absolviert wurde. Das Ergebnis der Studie zeigt, dass die verschiedenen Sprachen eine sich großteils überlappende Gehirnaktivierung aufweisen, die dem Bilderbenennungs- und dem Sprachverarbeitungsprozess als solchen zugrunde liegt, während die neuronale Aktivität, die mit den einzelnen Sprachen korreliert, nur anhand weniger signifikanter Unterschiede festzuhalten ist. Die Untersuchung betritt insofern Neuland, als es sich bei der vorliegenden Studie um die erste dieser Art mit einer homogenen, viersprachigen Probandengruppe handelt. Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die an Sprache(n) interessiert sind.
£45.81
V&R unipress GmbH Bi- and Multilingualism from Various Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises 16 chapters both research papers and theoretical contributions grouped in three thematic sections. The chapters in the first part, entitled Discourse Communities: Languages in Contact, adopt a social and/or historical perspective on bi-/multilingualism. The contributions in the second part, entitled Languages in the Mind: Language Development and Language Use, view issues related to bi- and multilingualism from psycholinguistic and psychological perspectives. The chapters comprising the third part, Language Education: Supporting Multilingual Development, adopt a broadly understood didactic perspective on bi-/multilingualism.
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V&R unipress Conceptualisation as a Biocognitive Phenomenon
Book SynopsisThe faculty of language viewed as a genetic and social phenomenon and conceptualisation as its basic component
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Kalden-Consulting Mehrsprachigkeit und die Frage nach der
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic The Torah/Law Is a Journey: Using Cognitive and
Book SynopsisAn analysis of metaphor in the legal texts of the Old Testament using the tools of cognitive and cultural linguistics. The Old Testament is rich in metaphor. Metaphorical expressions appear not only in places where you might expect them, like the poetic verses, but also in the legal texts. They appear in the preambles to collections of laws, in their final summaries, in general considerations on compliance with and violation of the law, in texts concerning the meaning of the law, and those dealing with topics now reserved for legal theory and legal philosophy. These metaphorical expressions reveal how the authors of the relevant Torah/Law texts understood their function in society and what the society of the time preferred in the law. Anchored in cognitive and cultural linguistics, The Torah/Law Is a Journey investigates Hebrew metaphorical expressions concerning the key Old Testament concept of Torah/Law. Ivana Procházková identifies Hebrew conceptual metaphors and explicates the metaphorical expressions. She also uses cognitive linguistic analysis to look at modern translations of selected metaphorical expressions into Czech and English. Procházková closes with an analysis of the metaphors used in the Council of Europe publication Compass: Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People to conceptualize human rights.Trade Review"It is a benefit to those interested in the intersection between cognitive linguistics and biblical studies, and especially to those who are intrigued by 'the Torah/Law is a journey' metaphor." * The Catholic Biblical Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphorical expressions in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament: Starting points and methods.1.1 Methods used in the analysis and interpretation of Hebrew metaphorical expressions relating to the term ???? the Torah/Law, and in the explanation of meaning.Embodiment theoryThe mental spaces theoryThe conceptual blending theoryA holistic understanding of meaning: Understanding connotations1.2 The metaphorical conceptualisation of ???? the Torah/Law and related Hebrew terms: Basic characteristics of the semantic area and the terminology and etymology of the central Hebrew expression.Chapter 2. Metaphorical conceptualisation of ???? the Torah/Law and related terms2.1 The central conceptual metaphor: THE TORAH / LAW IS A JOURNEY2.1.1 The generic narrative structure TO WALK ALONG THE PATH 2.1.2 The generic narrative structure TO RUN ALONG THE PATH 2.1.3 The generic narrative structure TO LEAVE THE PATH / TO TURN FROM THE PATH 2.1.4 The generic narrative structure TO GO ASTRAY 2.1.5 The generic narrative structure TO RETURN2.1.6 The generic narrative structure TO SEARCH FOR THE PATH / TO SEARCH ON THE PATH2.1.7 The generic narrative structure TO TAKE ON / SHOW THE PATH2.1.8 The generic narrative structure TO FALL DOWN ON THE PATH2.2 Summary of the metaphorical conceptualisation of ???? the Torah/Law and related terms through the journey metaphor 2.3 Other conceptual metaphors2.3.1 Other metaphors involved in the conceptualisation of ???? the Torah/Law in the Old Testament2.3.2 Summary of other metaphors involved in the conceptualisation of ???? the Torah/Law in the Old TestamentChapter 3. Using cognitive and cultural-linguistic analysis to interpret and translate metaphorical expressions in the Old Testament3.1 Using cognitive-linguistic approaches in interpretation: The journey metaphor and spatial image schemas in the book of Jeremiah3.2 Using cognitive and culturally oriented linguistic analysis and interpretation in translation studies3.2.1 Modern translations of the Bible into English and Czech3.2.2 Analysis, interpretation and translation of the metaphorical expression in Deuteronomy 8:63.2.3 Analysis, interpretation and translation of the metaphorical expression in Proverbs 29:183.2.4 Analysis, interpretation and translation of the metaphorical expression in Zephaniah 3:43.3 SummaryChapter 4. Case Study. What metaphors say about human rights. A cognitive-semantic analysis and interpretation of biblical metaphors in the teaching material Compass: Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People4.1 Conceptual metaphors and their roots in biblical language4.2 The quasi-religion of human rightsConclusionSourcesBibliography
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Brill Handbook of Cognitive Semantics, vol. 1: With a
Book SynopsisCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics is the first reference work in the field. Edited by Thomas Fuyin Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments. Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This is the first volume in a set of four. It contains the following parts: Part I: Conceptual Semantics Part II: Basic IssuesTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Foreword: A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics Leonard Talmy 2 Introducing Cognitive Semantics Fuyin Thomas Li Part 1 Conceptual Semantics 3 The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka, and Zhengdao Ye 4 Frame Semantics Esraʾ M. Abdelzaher 5 Conceptual Semantics Ronald W. Langacker 6 Embodied Semantics Daniel Casasanto 7 Simulation Semantics: How the Body Characterizes the Mind Nian Liu Part 2 Basic Issues 8 A Usage-Based Analysis of the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface Mira Ariel 9 Encyclopedic Knowledge and Linguistic Meaning Patrick Duffley 10 Meaning and Intersubjectivity Magdalena Rybarczyk and Michael Stevens Pérez 11 Cognitive Semantics: Conceptualization, Identity (Politics), and the Real World Peter Harder Appendix: Volumes Overview
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Brill Handbook of Cognitive Semantics, vol. 3: With a
Book SynopsisCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics is the first reference work in the field. Edited by Thomas Fuyin Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments. Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This is the third volume in a set of four. It contains the following parts: Part VII: Space and Time Part VIII: Event Typology Part IX: Meaning Construction
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John Benjamins Publishing Co The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive
Book SynopsisMany studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It orchestrates relatable and intriguing topics, from sound-symbolism in rice cracker naming to meanings of aesthetic sake taste terms. The chapters show that the language of food in Japanese is multifaceted: for instance, expressivity is enhanced by ideophones, as sensory words iconically depicting perceptual experiences and as nuanced words flexibly participating in neologization; context-sensitivity is exemplified by words deeply imbued with socio-cultural constructs; creativity is portrayed by imaginative expressions grounded in embodied experience. The volume will be a valuable resource for students and researchers, not only in linguistics but also in neighboring disciplines, who seek deeper insights into how language interacts with food in Japanese or any other language.Trade ReviewMuch of the work on the linguistics of food has been conducted on the English language. This book makes a strong contribution to the field by providing an in-depth analysis of the language of food in Japanese. This analysis reveals innovative linguistic patterns and uses. For example, Japanese binomial adjectives (Chapter 4) are a novel ideophone construction that can be used in creative descriptions of food. Not only does the study of Japanese add to the field in terms of generalizability, but it also opens up fascinating new directions of research, by highlighting unique aspects of the Japanese language in relation to food. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and look forward to follow-up research that will no doubt emerge from this volume. -- Laura Speed, Radboud University
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Beyond Disfluency: The interplay of speech,
Book SynopsisThis book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency, evaluating fluency across three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English, the present research goes beyond traditional production-oriented models of so-called ‘disfluency’ phenomena, and aims to unravel the complexities of human multimodal production and interactive processes. Designed for linguists, communication scholars, and researchers, this work resonates with the latest trends in different fields (Second Language Acquisition, Interactional Linguistics, and Gesture studies). It introduces a fresh perspective on disfluency by integrating visual-gestural features, such as hand gestures, gaze, and facial expressions, captured in situated interaction.
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in
Book SynopsisThis book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to arrive at innovative accounts of a range of literary and textual phenomena. The chapters cover a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, including poetry, fictional and non-fictional narratives, and plays. Some of the chapters provide new approaches to phenomena that have a long tradition in literary and linguistic studies (such as humour, characterisation, figurative language, and metre), others focus on phenomena that have not yet received adequate attention (such as split-selves phenomena, mind style, and spatial language). This book is relevant to students and scholars in a wide range of areas within linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.Table of Contents1. Acknowledgements; 2. Foreword (by Semino, Elena); 3. Conceptual integration in Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies (by Hamilton, Craig A.); 4. The body in the word: A cognitive approach to the shape of a poetic text (by Freeman, Margaret H.); 5. The Figure in the Carpet: Discovery or Re-cognition (by Popova, Yanna); 6. Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading (by Stockwell, Peter); 7. A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction (by Semino, Elena); 8. Between the lines: Spatial language and its developmental representation in Stephen King's IT (by Peer, Willie van); 9. "Split selves" in fiction and in medical "life stories": Cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice (by Emmott, Catherine); 10. Metaphor in Bob Dylan's "Hurricane": Genre, language, and style (by Steen, Gerard J.); 11. Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity: The use of figurative language in poetic discourse (by Shen, Yeshayahu); 12. Cognitive stylistics of humorous texts (by Attardo, Salvatore); 13. A cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation (by Culpeper, Jonathan); 14. Aspects of Cognitive Poetics (by Tsur, Reuven); 15. Afterword (by Freeman, Donald C.); 16. Name Index; 17. Subject Index
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John Benjamins Publishing Co The Shared Mind: Perspectives on
Book SynopsisThe cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional “theory of mind” approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.Table of Contents1. Foreword. Shared minds and the science of fiction: Why theories will differ (by Trevarthen, Colwyn); 2. 1. Intersubjectivity: What makes us human? (by Zlatev, Jordan); 3. Part I. Development; 4. 2. Understanding others through primary interaction and narrative practice (by Gallagher, Shaun); 5. 3. The neuroscience of social understanding (by Barresi, John); 6. 4. Engaging, sharing, knowing: Some lessons from research in autism (by Hobson, R. Peter); 7. 5. Coming to agreement: Object use by infants and adults (by Rodriguez, Cintia); 8. 6. The role of intersubjectivity in the development of intentional communication (by Brinck, Ingar); 9. 7. Sharing mental states: Causal and definitional issues in intersubjectivity (by Susswein, Noah); 10. Part II. Evolution; 11. 8. Evidence for intentional and referential communication in great apes? (by Pika, Simone); 12. 9. The heterochronic origins of explicit reference (by Leavens, David A.); 13. 10. The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis (by Zlatev, Jordan); 14. 11. First communions: Mimetic sharing without theory of mind (by Hutto, Daniel D.); 15. Part III. Language; 16. 12. The central role of normativity in language and linguistics (by Itkonen, Esa); 17. 13. Intersubjectivity in the architecture of language system (by Verhagen, Arie); 18. 14. Intersubjectivity in interpreted interactions: The interpreter's role in co-constructing meaning (by Janzen, Terry); 19. 15. Language and the signifying object: From convention to imagination (by Sinha, Chris); 20. Author index; 21. Subject index
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Cognitive Control and Consequences of
Book SynopsisThe human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental exercise which may lead to cognitive benefits. Through an in-depth exploration of these issues, Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism presents original studies and new perspectives which are cutting-edge and feature traditional and innovative methodologies such as ERPs, fMRIs, eye-tracking, picture- and numeral naming, the Simon, flanker, and oculomotor Stroop tasks, among others. The studies in this book investigate prominent themes in multilingual language control for both comprehension and production and probe the notion of a cognitive advantage that may be a result of multilingualism. The growing number of researchers, practitioners, and students alike will find this volume to be an instrumental source of readings that illuminates how one mind accommodates and controls multiple languages and the consequences it has on human cognition in general.Table of Contents1. Acknowledgments; 2. About the editor; 3. About the contributors; 4. Part I: Introduction; 5. Cognitive and neurocognitive implications of language control and multilingualism (by Schwieter, John W.); 6. Part II: Cognitive control and multilingualism; 7. Chapter 1. Bilingualism, executive control, and eye movement measures of reading: A selective review and re-analysis of bilingual vs. multilingual reading data (by Titone, Debra); 8. Chapter 2. Listening with your cohort: Do bilingual toddlers co-activate cohorts from both languages when hearing words in one language alone? (by Bobb, Susan C.); 9. Chapter 3. The role of executive function in the perception of L2 speech sounds in young balanced and unbalanced dual language learners (by Archila-Suerte, Pilar); 10. Chapter 4. Are cognate words "special"?: On the role of cognate words in language switching performance (by Santesteban, Mikel); 11. Chapter 5. Action speaks louder than words, even in speaking: The influence of (no) overt speech production on language switch costs (by Philipp, Andrea M.); 12. Chapter 6. Influence of preparation time on language control: A trilingual digit-naming study (by Festman, Julia); 13. Chapter 7. When L1 suffers: Sustained, global slowing and the reversed language effect in mixed language context (by Christoffels, Ingrid); 14. Chapter 8. Effects of cognitive control, lexical robustness, and frequency of codeswitching on language switching (by Schwieter, John W.); 15. Chapter 9. The locus of cross-language activation: ERP evidence from unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals (by Guo, Taomei); 16. Chapter 10. Syntactic interference in bilingual naming during language switching: An electrophysiological study (by Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni); 17. Chapter 11. Multi-component perspective of cognitive control in bilingualism (by Morales, Julia); 18. Part III: Consequences of multilingualism; 19. Chapter 12. The bilingual advantage in the auditory domain: New directions in methodology and theory (by Ouzia, Julia); 20. Chapter 13. Executive functions in bilingual children: Is there a role for language balance? (by Prior, Anat); 21. Chapter 14. Home language usage and executive function in bilingual preschoolers (by Leon Guerrero, Sibylla); 22. Chapter 15. Cognitive mechanisms underlying performance differences between monolinguals and bilinguals (by Grundy, John G.); 23. Chapter 16. Time course differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in the Simon task* (by Narra, Manjunath); 24. Chapter 17. Top down influence on executive control in bilinguals: Influence of proficiency* (by Mishra, Ramesh Kumar); 25. Index
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City University of Hong Kong Press LANGUAGE, EVOLUTION, AND THE BRAIN
Book SynopsisThis volume consists of an important collection of papers presented at the Seminar on Language, Evolution, and the Brain (SLEB), hosted by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Kyoto, Japan, bringing together distinguished researchers with background in cognitive science, anthropology, linguistics, robotics, physics, etc. Major topics discussed here include: creoles and pidgins, and their implications regarding language evolution; quantitative analysis and modeling of various aspects of language evolution, including the evolution of lexical items and color terms, the emergence of linguistics categories, and the dynamics of language competition; the evolution of the human brain, and how that relates to language evolution; the evolution and the role of mirror neurons in both humans and non-humans; and, evidence that the influence of language on color perception (an example of the Whorf Effect) is stronger for the right visual field than the left. This volume provides a multi-faceted discussion of how language evolves and shapes the brain that may entice university students and researchers to delve into this field with more background and curiosity.
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Language Change and Variation
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