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Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations
Editors
Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original multimodal approach, covering various aspects of cross-linguistic variation, differences between spoken, signed and drum languages, between normal speech and pathological speech, and also between language and music, as revealed in electric brain activity associated with language processing. The various contributions (linguistic, anthropological, psychological and neurophysical) on the nature and status of variation and invariants in language provides evidence for complex interactions between language-specific processes and general cognitive faculties. This overview of some recent trends in cognitive linguistics opens up a promising new research area in the humanities as well as in the cognitive sciences.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 3] 1999. x, 229 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 May 2011
Published online on 23 May 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionCatherine Fuchs | p. vii
- I: Semantic Variations and Invariance: Cognitive Issues
- Diversity in linguistic representations: A challenge for cognitionCatherine Fuchs | p. 3
- Cognitive invariants and linguistic variability: From units to utteranceStéphane Robert | p. 21
- Subjectivity, invariance, and the development of forms in the construction of linguistic representationsAntoine Culioli | p. 37
- Language evolution and semantic representations: A case study of the evolution from “subjectivity” to “objectivity” in FrenchChristiane Marchello-Nizia | p. 53
- II: Conceptualization and Representations of Space across Languages
- Spatial orientation in some Austronesian languagesFrançoise Ozanne-Rivierre | p. 73
- Language space and sociolect: Cognitive correlates of gendere speech in Mopan MayaEve Danziger | p. 85
- Localization and predication: Ancient geek and various other languagesHansjakob Seiler | p. 107
- The expression of spatial relations and the spatialization of semantic relations in French Sign LanguageChristian Cuxac | p. 123
- III: Language Activity: From Linguistic to Cognitive Processes
- From natural language to drum language: An economical encoding procedure in Banda-Linda, Central African RepublicFrance Cloarec-Heiss | p. 145
- Electrical signs of language in the brainMarta Kutas | p. 159
- Linguistic variations and cognitive constraints in the processing and acquisition of languageMichèle Kail | p. 179
- Universal vs. language-specific constraints in agrammatic aphasia. Is comparatism back?Jean-Luc Nespoulous | p. 195
- Schizophasia and cognitive dysfunctionBernard Pachoud | p. 209
- Index | p. 221
- Subject index | pp. 221–224
- Author index | pp. 225–227
- Language index | pp. 228–229
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