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"The Classic Edition of The New Psychology of Language, Volume I will continue to be recommended reading for psychology students and researchers who study psychology, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and developmental psycholinguistics"--
List of contents
Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello
Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure, M. Tomasello
- Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar, R.W. Langacker
- The Functional Approach to Grammar, T. Givón
- The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language, W. Croft
- Language and the Flow of Thought, W. Chafe
- The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective, A. Wierzbicka
- Emergent Grammar, P.J. Hopper
- Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories, J.R. Taylor
- Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language, A.E. Goldberg
- The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, R.D. Van Valin, Jr.
- Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration, G. Fauconnier
About the author
Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes. Books include First Verbs (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Primate Cognition (Oxford University Press, 1997, with J. Call), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (Harvard University Press, 2003), Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), and A Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Summary
The New Psychology of Language volumes are a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how cognitive and functional linguistics has become the thriving perspective on the scientific study of language that it is today.
