Cognitive Models In Language And Thought

Author : René Dirven,Roslyn Frank,Martin Pütz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110892901

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Cognitive Models in Language and Thought by René Dirven,Roslyn Frank,Martin Pütz Pdf

The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.

Author : Dorothy Holland,Naomi Quinn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521311683

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Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Dorothy Holland,Naomi Quinn Pdf

A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.

Author : Adrian Brasoveanu,Jakub Dotlačil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9783030318468

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Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory by Adrian Brasoveanu,Jakub Dotlačil Pdf

This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing increasingly complex and cognitively realistic competence-performance models, it provides running code for these models and shows how to fit them to real-time experimental data. This computational cognitive modeling approach opens up exciting new directions for research in formal semantics, and linguistics more generally, and offers new ways of (re)connecting semantics and the broader field of cognitive science. The approach of this book is novel in more ways than one. Assuming the mental architecture and procedural modalities of Anderson's ACT-R framework, it presents fine-grained computational models of human language processing tasks which make detailed quantitative predictions that can be checked against the results of self-paced reading and other psycho-linguistic experiments. All models are presented as computer programs that readers can run on their own computer and on inputs of their choice, thereby learning to design, program and run their own models. But even for readers who won't do all that, the book will show how such detailed, quantitatively predicting modeling of linguistic processes is possible. A methodological breakthrough and a must for anyone concerned about the future of linguistics! (Hans Kamp) This book constitutes a major step forward in linguistics and psycholinguistics. It constitutes a unique synthesis of several different research traditions: computational models of psycholinguistic processes, and formal models of semantics and discourse processing. The work also introduces a sophisticated python-based software environment for modeling linguistic processes. This book has the potential to revolutionize not only formal models of linguistics, but also models of language processing more generally. (Shravan Vasishth) .

Author : Annalisa Baicchi,Erica Pinelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527500396

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Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures by Annalisa Baicchi,Erica Pinelli Pdf

This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties, and it also depicts the import of cognitive models in the production and interpretation of multimodal communication. In addition, a number of more specific topics are addressed from different perspectives, such as language variation and cultural models, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse and the role of empirical work in cognitive linguistics.

Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674510305

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The Language of Thought by Jerry A. Fodor Pdf

In a compelling defense of the speculative approach to the philosophy of mind, Jerry Fodor argues that, while our best current theories of cognitive psychology view many higher processes as computational, computation itself presupposes an internal medium of representation. Fodor's prime concerns are to buttress the notion of internal representation from a philosophical viewpoint, and to determine those characteristics of this conceptual construct using the empirical data available from linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther,Günter Radden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027299376

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Metonymy in Language and Thought by Klaus-Uwe Panther,Günter Radden Pdf

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a “figure of thought,” underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models. The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.

Author : Gerry T. M. Altmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262510847

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Cognitive Models of Speech Processing by Gerry T. M. Altmann Pdf

Cognitive Models of Speech Processing presents extensive reviews of current thinking on psycholinguistic and computational topics in speech recognition and natural-language processing, along with a substantial body of new experimental data and computational simulations. Topics range from lexical access and the recognition of words in continuous speech to syntactic processing and the relationship between syntactic and intonational structure. A Bradford Book. ACL-MIT Press Series in Natural Language Processing

Author : Jerome Feldman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262562355

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From Molecule to Metaphor by Jerome Feldman Pdf

In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links between. Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know exactly how words are understood or have any methodology for finding out. Feldman develops his theory in computer simulations—formal models that suggest ways that language and thought may be realized in the brain. Combining key findings and theories from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, Feldman synthesizes a theory by exhibiting programs that demonstrate the required behavior while remaining consistent with the findings from all disciplines. After presenting the essential results on language, learning, neural computation, the biology of neurons and neural circuits, and the mind/brain, Feldman introduces specific demonstrations and formal models of such topics as how children learn their first words, words for abstract and metaphorical concepts, understanding stories, and grammar (including "hot-button" issues surrounding the innateness of human grammar). With this accessible, comprehensive book Feldman offers readers who want to understand how our brains create thought and language a theory of language that is intuitively plausible and also consistent with existing scientific data at all levels.

Author : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261021

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Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language by Annalisa Baicchi Pdf

This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.

Author : Gilles Fauconnier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521599539

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Mappings in Thought and Language by Gilles Fauconnier Pdf

Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest levels of scientific, artistic, and literary thought, and at the lower levels of elementary understanding and sentence meaning. Some key cognitive operations are analogical mappings, conceptual integration and blending, discourse management, induction and recursion. The analyses are based on a rich array of attested data in ordinary language, humor, action and design, science, and narratives. Phenomena that receive attention include counterfactuals; time, tense, and mood; opacity; metaphor; fictive motion; grammatical constructions; quantification over cognitive domains.

Author : Leda Berio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110748550

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Talking About Thinking by Leda Berio Pdf

Our ability to attribute mental states to others ("to mentalize") has been the subject of philosophical and psychological studies for a very long time, yet the role of language acquisition in the development of our mentalizing abilities has been largely understudied. This book addresses this gap in the philosophical literature. The book presents an account of how false belief reasoning is impacted by language acquisition, and it does so by placing it in the larger context of the issue, how language impacts cognition in general. The work provides the reader with detailed and critical literature reviews, and draws on them to argue that language acquisition helps false belief reasoning by boosting the ability to create schemata that facilitate processing of information in some social contexts. According to this framework, it is a combination of syntactic clues and cultural narratives that helps the child to solve the classic false belief task. The book provides a novel, original account of how language helps false belief reasoning, while also giving the reader a broad, precise and well-documented picture of the debate around some of the most fundamental issues in social cognition.

Author : John Bissell Carroll
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Communication
ISBN : UCSC:32106005802183

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Language and Thought by John Bissell Carroll Pdf

A psychological study of thought and language which takes an exposition of scientific linquistics as a point of departure.

Author : Dedre Gentner,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262571633

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Language in Mind by Dedre Gentner,Susan Goldin-Meadow Pdf

The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently. Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought, recent theoretical and methodological advances in cognitive science have given the question new life. Research in linguistics and linguistic anthropology has revealed striking differences in cross-linguistic semantic patterns, and cognitive psychology has developed subtle techniques for studying how people represent and remember experience. It is now possible to test predictions about how a given language influences the thinking of its speakers. Language in Mind includes contributions from both skeptics and believers and from a range of fields. It contains work in cognitive psychology, cognitive development, linguistics, anthropology, and animal cognition. The topics discussed include space, number, motion, gender, theory of mind, thematic roles, and the ontological distinction between objects and substances. Contributors Melissa Bowerman, Eve Clark, Jill de Villiers, Peter de Villiers, Giyoo Hatano, Stan Kuczaj, Barbara Landau, Stephen Levinson, John Lucy, Barbara Malt, Dan Slobin, Steven Sloman, Elizabeth Spelke, and Michael Tomasello

Author : Adrian Brasoveanu,Jakub Dotlačil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language and languages-Philosophy
ISBN : 3030318451

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Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory by Adrian Brasoveanu,Jakub Dotlačil Pdf

Author : Rosemary J. Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015029222679

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Language, Thought and Representation by Rosemary J. Stevenson Pdf

Presents an historical overview of the way that ideas about language and thinking have developed from the early days of cognitive psychology to the present. Emphasizes psychological theories and findings, but also considers related work in artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy. Develops an integrated model by exploring specific themes: the relationship between language and thinking, inductive vs. deductive inferences, conscious vs. unconscious processes, and general purpose vs. domain specific processes.