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Mental States
Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure
Editors
The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give into the organization and structure of the mind and specific mental states. Topics and linguistic phenomena discussed include narratives and story telling, language development, figurative language, linguistic categorization, linguistic relativity, and the linguistic coding of mental states such as perceptions and beliefs. With contributions at the forefront of current debate, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in language and the cognitive structures that support it.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 93] 2007. x, 362 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–7
- List of contributors | pp. ix–x
- 1. Mental categories in natural languagesDrew Khlentzos and Andrea C. Schalley | pp. 1–10
- 2. A culture-neutral metalanguage for mental state conceptsCliff Goddard | pp. 11–35
- 3. Shape and colour in language and thoughtAnna Wierzbicka | pp. 37–60
- 4. Universal and language-specific aspects of "propositional attitudes": Russian vs. EnglishAnna Gladkova | pp. 61–83
- 5. Mental states reflected in cognitive lexemes related to memory: A case in KoreanKyung-Joo Yoon | pp. 85–107
- 6. Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognitionZhengdao Ye | pp. 109–132
- 7. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf: Spontaneous written narratives by a child with autismLesley Stirling and Graham Barrington | pp. 133–171
- 8. Interaction between language and cognition in language developmentHeather Winskel | pp. 173–190
- 9. What figurative language development reveals about the mindHerbert L. Colston | pp. 191–212
- 10. Would you rather 'embert a cudsert' or 'cudsert an embert'? How spelling patterns at the beginning of English disyllables can cue grammatical categoryJoanne Arciuli and Linda Cupples | pp. 213–237
- 11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern AustraliaBrett Baker | pp. 239–265
- 12. Events masquerading as entities: Pseudorelative perception verb complements in Mawng (Australian) and Romance languagesRuth Singer | pp. 267–288
- 13. Word and construction as units of categorization: The case of change predicates in EstonianRenate Pajusalu and Ilona Tragel | pp. 289–310
- 14. Categories and concepts in phonology: Theory and practiceHelen Fraser | pp. 311–330
- 15. You can run, but: Another look at linguistic relativityRoger Wales | pp. 331–350
- Name index | pp. 351–354
- Language index | p. 355
- Subject index | pp. 357–360
- Table of contents of volume 1 | pp. 361–362