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

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello Introduction: Some Surprises for Psychologists, M. Tomasello Concept Structuring Systems in Language, L. Talmy Discourse and Grammar, J.W. Du Bois Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories, S. Kemmer Social Interaction and Grammar, C.E. Ford, B.A. Fox, S.A. Thompson Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization, J. Bybee Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference, K. van Hoek On Explaining Language Universals, B. Comrie The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Cross-Linguistic Comparison, M. Haspelmath Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case ofLet Alone, C.J. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor ...

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• Authors: Michael Tomasello, Michael (Max Planck Institute for Evolu Tomasello
• Assisted by: Michael Tomasello (Editor), Michael (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Tomasello (Editor), Tomasello Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2014
• EAN: 9781848725942
• ISBN: 978-1-84872-594-2
• 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; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; 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