Event Representation In Language And Cognition

Author : Jürgen Bohnemeyer,Eric Pederson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139493673

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Event Representation in Language and Cognition by Jürgen Bohnemeyer,Eric Pederson Pdf

Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into the cognitive processes involved when people view events and talk about them is still a young field. The chapters by leading experts draw on data from the description of events in spoken and signed languages, first and second language acquisition, co-speech gesture and eye movements during language production, and from non-linguistic categorization and other tasks. The book highlights newly found evidence for how perception, thought, and language constrain each other in the experience of events. It will be of particular interest to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers, as well as to anyone interested in the representation and processing of events.

Author : Jürgen Bohnemeyer,Eric Pederson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Events (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0511918194

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Event Representation in Language and Cognition by Jürgen Bohnemeyer,Eric Pederson Pdf

Author : Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004395164

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Ten Lectures on the Representation of Events in Language, Perception, Memory, and Action Control by Jeffrey M. Zacks Pdf

"The representation of events is a central topic for cognitive science. In this series of lectures, Jeffrey M. Zacks situates event representations and their role in language within a theory of perception and memory. Event representations have a distinctive structure and format that result from computational and neural mechanisms operating during perception and language comprehension. A crucial aspect of the mechanisms is that event representations are updated to optimize their predictive utility. This updating has consequences for action control and for long-term memory. Event cognition changes across the adult lifespan and can be impaired by conditions including Alzheimer's disease. These mechanisms have broad impact on everyday activity, and have shaped the development of media such as cinema and narrative fiction"--

Author : Gabriel A. Radvansky,Jeffrey M. Zacks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199898145

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Event Cognition by Gabriel A. Radvansky,Jeffrey M. Zacks Pdf

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first integrated framework for event cognition and attempt to synthesize the available psychological and neuroscience data surrounding it. This synthesis leads to new proposals about several traditional areas in psychology and neuroscience including perception, attention, language understanding, memory, and problem solving. Radvansky and Zacks have written this book with a diverse readership in mind. It is intended for a range of researchers working within cognitive science including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, and education. Readers curious about events more generally such as those working in literature, film theory, and history will also find it of interest.

Author : Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199589876

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Time: Language, Cognition & Reality by Kasia M. Jaszczolt Pdf

Linguists and philosophers examine the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between facts, events, states, propositions, and utterances. They link this to current research in psychology and anthropology.

Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027238995

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Asymmetric Events by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Pdf

The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones. Asymmetric events are two or more events of unequal status in an utterance and papers in the volume present ways in which a linguistic description of main events in a sentence is different (morphologically, syntactically, discursively) from a description of backgrounded events. The prototypical asymmetries involving perception, cognition, and language are identified in subordination, nominalization and modification of various kinds but they extend to coordinate structures, serial verbs, spatial language and viewing arrangement, as well as part - whole relations. The perspective is broadly cognitive and functional, the authors use different though complementing methodologies, some include corpus data, and the asymmetries are shown to have a variety of stylistic and ideological implications.An in-depth analysis of manifold asymmetries in structure and function of diverse languages makes this volume of interest to linguists of different persuasion, philosophers, cognitive researchers, discourse analysts and students of language and cognition.

Author : Antoine Culioli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276537

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Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory by Antoine Culioli Pdf

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is grounded in Emile Benveniste's (1902-1976) revolutionary answer to Saussure's opposition between competence (langue) and performance (parole) captured in the idea of énonciation, in which the relationship between an individual and a language is one of appropriation. The translation has been prepared to provide the reader with as obstacle-free a path as one can clear to a theory that requires, and indeed commands, a very close, attentive reading. As an additional aid to understand Culioli's argument, footnotes throughout the work show similarities and differences with the work of the cognitive linguist Ronald W. Langacker.

Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273604

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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt Pdf

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.

Author : Thomas F. Shipley,Thomas F Shipley,Jeffrey M. Zacks,Assistant Professor Department of Psychology and Director Dynamic Cognition Lab Jeffrey M Zacks
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195188370

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Understanding Events by Thomas F. Shipley,Thomas F Shipley,Jeffrey M. Zacks,Assistant Professor Department of Psychology and Director Dynamic Cognition Lab Jeffrey M Zacks Pdf

We effortlessly recognize all sorts of events--from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on event perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception--in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science--has progressed without much interaction. This volume is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. The book will provide professional and student researchers with a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields.

Author : Scott Jarvis,Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135646684

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Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition by Scott Jarvis,Aneta Pavlenko Pdf

A cogent, clearly-written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influences on language and thought, this book is intended as a text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, as well as a resource for instructors and scholars in applied linguistics, linguistics, and psycholinguistics courses.

Author : Katherine Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052162987X

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Language in Cognitive Development by Katherine Nelson Pdf

This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.

Author : Guofeng Zheng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789813340374

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The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse by Guofeng Zheng Pdf

This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese Translocative Motion Events (TMEs), which possess Macro-Event Property (MEP). It addresses all the issues critical to understanding TMEs in English and Chinese, from event segmentation, MEP principles and the conceptual structure of TMEs and their constituents, to the representation of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground. The book argues that the corpus-based alignment for the TME segmentation in both languages, the parameters of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground and their relevant statistical description are particularly important for understanding English and Chinese TMEs. The linguistic materialization of Actant, Ground, Path and Motion, together with a wealth of tables and figures, offers convincing evidence to support the typological classification of English and Chinese. The book’s suggestions regarding the Talmyan bipartite typology and Bohnemeyer’s MEP contribute to the advancement of TME studies and language typology, and help learners to understand motion events and English-Chinese typological similarities and differences.

Author : Catherine Fuchs,Stéphane Robert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027284501

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Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations by Catherine Fuchs,Stéphane Robert Pdf

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.

Author : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694935

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Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages by Aneta Pavlenko Pdf

Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlocking the mysteries surrounding thinking and speaking in bi- and multilingual speakers. If languages influence the way we think, what happens to those who speak more than one language? And if they do not, how can we explain the difficulties second language learners experience in mapping new words and structures onto real-world referents? The contributors to this volume put forth a novel approach to second language learning, presenting it as a process that involves conceptual development and restructuring, and not simply the mapping of new forms onto pre-existing meanings.

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Heiko Hausendorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110693812

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Pragmatics of Space by Andreas H. Jucker,Heiko Hausendorf Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of language use in space. It consists of four parts. The first part covers the various practices of describing space through language, including spatial references in spoken interaction or in written texts, the description of motion events as well as the creation of imaginative spaces in storytelling. The second part surveys aspects of the spatial organization of face-to-face communication including not only spatial arrangements of small groups in interaction but also the spatial dimension of sign language and gestures. The third part is devoted to the communicative resources of constructed spaces and the ways in which these facilitate and shape communication. Part four, finally, is devoted to pragmatics across space and cultures, i.e. the ways in which language use differs across language varieties, languages and cultures.