Language Usage And Cognition

Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139487023

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Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance. It outlines a theory of language that addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, what we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and language change which has implications for cognitive processing and language evolution.

Author : Joan L. Bybee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055299106

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Author : Andrea E. Tyler,Mari Takada,Yiyoung Kim,Diana Marinova
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1589013565

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Language in Use by Andrea E. Tyler,Mari Takada,Yiyoung Kim,Diana Marinova Pdf

Language in Use creatively brings together, for the first time, perspectives from cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. The physical distance between nations and continents, and the boundaries between different theories and subfields within linguistics have made it difficult to recognize the possibilities of how research from each of these fields can challenge, inform, and enrich the others. This book aims to make those boundaries more transparent and encourages more collaborative research. The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context and explores how language is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. Language in Use examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning. Using a diverse array of methodologies, it examines how speakers employ various discourse-level resources to structure interaction and create meaning. Finally, it addresses issues of language use and creation of social identity. Unique in approach and wide-ranging in application, the contributions in this volume place emphasis on the analysis of actual discourse and the insights that analyses of such data bring to language learning as well as how language shapes and reflects social identity—making it an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in cutting-edge linguistics.

Author : Sadia Belkhir
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527546608

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Cognition and Language Learning by Sadia Belkhir Pdf

This collection highlights the interplay between cognition and language learning, and tackles such issues as cognition and skills development, language processing, vocabulary memorisation, metaphor identification, vocabulary attrition, motivation, and the perception of phonemes, among others. The contributions here represent current forward-looking research in the field of cognitive linguistics and education. To date, there has been a sharp need for innovative research that examines the interrelationship between cognition and the process of language learning. This volume responds to this requirement, bringing together researchers interested in this research area to discuss their contributions, and to open debates about the role played by cognition in language learning. The book will appeal to master’s and doctoral students, teachers, educational practitioners, and researchers interested in research into the interaction between cognition and language learning.

Author : Martin Pütz,Justyna A. Robinson,Monika Reif
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270276

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Cognitive Sociolinguistics by Martin Pütz,Justyna A. Robinson,Monika Reif Pdf

This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics (e.g. Labov) and cognitive sociolinguistics, seek to explore and systematize the key theoretical and epistemological bases for the emergence of this socio-cognitive paradigm. More specifically, the papers, originally published in Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2 (2012), focus on terms and concepts which are foundational to the discussion of Cognitive Sociolinguistics such as the role of cognition in the sociolinguistic enterprise; the social recontextualization of cognition; variability in cognitive systems; usage-based conceptions of language; pragmatic variation and cultural models of thought; cultural conceptualizations and lexicography as well as cognitive processing models and perceptual dialectology. All the papers are anchored in instrumental empirical data analysis. The volume provides a welcome contribution to the field for anyone interested in Cognitive Linguistics and its new developments. The seven papers included in this book were originally presented at the 34th International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, which took place in March 2010 at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany).

Author : Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel,Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642353055

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Language in Cognition and Affect by Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel,Elżbieta Szymańska-Czaplak Pdf

The volume contains most updated theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. It consists of articles devoted to various issued related to such broad topics as gender, literacy, translation or culture, to mention a few. The collection of papers offers a constructive and inspiring insight into a fuller understanding of the interconnection of the language-cognition-affect trichotomy.

Author : Heather Harris Wright
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267313

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Cognition, Language and Aging by Heather Harris Wright Pdf

Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including individual differences in education, life experiences, health issues, social identity, as well as gender. The purpose of this book is to provide an advanced text that considers these unique challenges and assembles in one source current information regarding (a) language in the aging population and (b) current theories accounting for age-related changes in language function. A thoughtful and comprehensive review of current research spanning different disciplines that study aging will achieve this purpose. Such disciplines include linguistics, psychology, sociolinguistics, neurosciences, cognitive sciences, and communication sciences. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : David Miller,Fatih Bayram,Jason Rothman,Ludovica Serratrice
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264541

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Bilingual Cognition and Language by David Miller,Fatih Bayram,Jason Rothman,Ludovica Serratrice Pdf

This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. The breadth of coverage in this volume is a testament to the many different aspects of bilingualism that continue to generate phenomenal interest in the scholarly community. The bilingual experience is captured through a multifaceted prism that includes aspects of language and literacy development in child bilinguals with and without developmental language disorders, language processing and mental representations in adult bilinguals across the lifespan, and the cognitive and neurological basis of bilingualism. Different theoretical approaches – from generative UG-based models to constructivist usage-based models – are brought to bear on the nature of bilingual linguistic knowledge. The end result is a compendium of the state-of-the-art of a field that is in constant evolution and that is on an upward trajectory of discovery.

Author : Thierry Poibeau,Aline Villavicencio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107162228

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Language, Cognition, and Computational Models by Thierry Poibeau,Aline Villavicencio Pdf

This book uses recent computational models to explore issues related to language and cognition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368421578

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Language and Cognition by Anonim Pdf

Interaction between language and cognition remains an unsolved scientific problem. What are the differences in neural mechanisms of language and cognition? Why do children acquire language by the age of six, while taking a lifetime to acquire cognition? What is the role of language and cognition in thinking? Is abstract cognition possible without language? Is language just a communication device, or is it fundamental in developing thoughts? Why are there no animals with human thinking but without human language? Combinations even among 100 words and 100 objects (multiple words can represent multiple objects) exceed the number of all the particles in the Universe, and it seems that no amount of experience would suffice to learn these associations. How does human brain overcome this difficulty?

Author : Peter Robinson,Nick C. Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135604196

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Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition by Peter Robinson,Nick C. Ellis Pdf

This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). The first two sections identify theoretical and empirical strands of Cognitive Linguistics, presenting them as a coherent whole. The third section discusses the relevance of Cognitive Linguistics to SLA and defines a research agenda linking these fields with implications for language instruction. Its comprehensive range and tutorial-style chapters make this handbook a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.

Author : Hans-Jörg Schmid,Susanne Handl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110205176

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Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns by Hans-Jörg Schmid,Susanne Handl Pdf

The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise. The book is important for the advancement of cognitive linguistics because the contributions demonstrate the seriousness of its ambitions to develop into a set of testable linguistic approaches. For the same reason, the volume is a contribution to our understanding of language in general, since it puts a promising modern approach on firmer ground. Assets of the book include the wide range of linguistic phenomena studied (individual concepts, fundamental semantic problems like vagueness and polysemy, grammatical issues incl. gender and tense, collocations, constructions and speech acts) and the scope of applied perspectives including lexicographical, computational, developmental and critical discourse ones. The languages investigated are English, German, Dutch, Polish and Italian. Common to the contributions is the desire to bring together observed patterns of linguistic usage with concepts and models established in cognitive linguistics. In addition, all contributions have an empirical basis and emphasize the need to rely on a sound methodology. The linguistic phenomena investigated span the range from the lexico-conceptual and collocational level to constructions, grammatical categories and functions. Two complementary perspectives of language and cognition are represented in the volume: In one group, the established methods of psycholinguistic experimentation, quantitative corpus analysis and computational simulation are exploited to demonstrate the viability and to increase the plausibility of cognitive-linguistic thinking. The second group tests well-known cognitive-linguistic approaches like Conceptual Metaphor Theory, the Theory of Idealized Cognitive Models and Construction Grammar against authentic data demonstrating their applicability and explanatory potential. Both groups include contributions reaching beyond the scope of traditional cognitive-linguistic topics, e.g. by taking a critical stance of reductionist cognitive thinking. The volume is of interest to cognitive linguists, psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, lexicologists, and lexicographers.

Author : Barbara Landau
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262122286

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Perception, Cognition, and Language by Barbara Landau Pdf

The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neuroscientific approaches to issues of representation and learning. These original empirical research essays in the psychology of perception, cognition, and language were written in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman, two of the most prominent psychologists of our time. The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neuroscientific approaches to issues of representation and learning. An introduction provides a historical perspective on the development of the field from the 1960s onward. The contributors have all been colleagues and students of the Gleitmans, and the collection celebrates their influence on the field of cognitive science. Contributors Cynthia Fisher, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Katherine Hirsh-Pasek, John Jonides, Phillip Kellman, Michael Kelly, Donald S. Lamm, Barbara Landau, Jack Nachmias, Letitia Naigles, Elissa Newport, W. Gerrod Parrott, Daniel Reisberg, Robert A. Rescorla, Paul Rozin, John Sabini, Elizabeth Shipley, Thomas F. Shipley, John C. Trueswell

Author : Luna Filipović,Martin Pütz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270283

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Multilingual Cognition and Language Use by Luna Filipović,Martin Pütz Pdf

This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese, Bulgarian, Dene, Dutch, Eipo, Frisian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Māori, Russian, Spanish, and Yukatek, among others), they are typologically diverse, and they are contrasted from a variety of perspectives, such as cognitive development, aging, acquisition, grammatical and lexical processing, and memory. This collection also illustrates novel insights into the linguistic relativity debate that multilingual studies can offer, such as new and revealing perspectives on some well-known topics (e.g. colour categorisation or language transfer). The critical and comprehensive discussions of theoretical and methodological considerations presented in this volume are fundamental for numerous current, future, empirical and interdisciplinary studies of linguistic diversity, linguistic typology, and multilingual processing.

Author : Piotr Pęzik,Jacek Tadeusz Walinski
Publisher : Lodz Studies in Language
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 3631663366

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Language, Corpora and Cognition by Piotr Pęzik,Jacek Tadeusz Walinski Pdf

This book focuses on matching theoretical predictions about language and cognition against empirical language data. The contributions use corpus linguistics methodology for their analysis. The contributors evaluate a variety of themes from combining syntax, semantics, discourse, terminology, to cognitive linguistics with the techniques and quantitative methods related to linguistic data processing.