Language, Feeling and the Brain - The Evocative Vector

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Shanahan Klappentext Building on Karl Pribram's integrated model of emotions and motivations! this book takes an approach to explain how emotions contribute to the nature of language! drawing on research done in neuropsychology! philosophy! cognitive linguistics! anthropology! and related fields. Zusammenfassung Linguistic theory since the Cognitive Revolution has fol- lowed one of the premises of that revolution by largely sidelining the issue of emotions and concentrating on those aspects of language that are more strictly cognitive Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Introduction, 1. Two Theories of the Emergence of Language, 2. Affect, Emotions, and Feeling, 3. Embodied Language, 4. Language, Catharsis, and Action, 5. Symbol, Syntax, and Meaning, 6. Apprehending Through Gesture, 7. On the Emotional Origins of Language, 8. Metaphor, 9. Narrative and Myth, 10. Myth and Culture, 11. Language, Literature, and Culture, Conclusion: Language Embodied, Bibliography, Subject Index, Name Index

Product details

• Authors: Dan Shanahan, Daniel Shanahan, Shanahan Daniel
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2007
• EAN: 9780765803542
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0354-2
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics