New Psychology of Language - Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume II

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.

List of contents

Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello
Introduction: Some Surprises for Psychologists, M. Tomasello

1. Concept Structuring Systems in Language, L. Talmy


2. Discourse and Grammar, J.W. Du Bois


3. Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories, S. Kemmer


4. Social Interaction and Grammar, C.E. Ford, B.A. Fox, S.A. Thompson


5. Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization, J. Bybee


6. Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference, K. van Hoek


7. On Explaining Language Universals, B. Comrie


8. The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Cross-Linguistic Comparison, M. Haspelmath


9. Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case ofLet Alone, C.J. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Tomasello, Michael (Max Planck Institute for Evolu Tomasello
• Assisted by: Michael Tomasello (Editor), Tomasello Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2014
• EAN: 9781848725935
• ISBN: 978-1-84872-593-5
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions; Psychology Press Classic Editi; Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics