Language in Mind by Dedre Gentner
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
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Beginning to Read
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Advice for a Young Investigator
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The Modularity of Mind
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Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience
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The Intentional Stance
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Being There
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The Nature of Consciousness
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Conceptual Spaces
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Explaining Consciousness
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Neurophilosophy
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Social Cognition
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Behavioral Endocrinology
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Brain-Wise
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Working Minds
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The Computational Beauty of Nature
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Vision Science
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An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique
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The Man Who Tasted Shapes
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Meaning and Mental Representation
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The Origins of Music
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The Mathematics of Marriage
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Minimal Rationality
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Brain and Culture
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The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain
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Dynamics in Action
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Subjectivity and Selfhood
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Moral Psychology
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Explaining Behavior
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The Science of the Mind
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Modularity in Knowledge Representation and Natural-Language Understanding
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Information in the Brain
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The Contours of Agency
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Situating Semantics
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The Attentive Brain
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262571630 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262571633 |
| Title | Language in Mind |
| Author | Dedre Gentner |
| Series | A Bradford Book |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-03-14 |
| Number of pages | 538 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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