Language in mind : advances in the study of language and thought / edited by Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow.
This volume offers contemporary investigations of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language influences how we perceive and understand the world.
Record details
- ISBN: 0262072432
- ISBN: 9780262072434
- ISBN: 0262571633
- ISBN: 9780262571630
- Physical Description: viii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Whither whorf / Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Languages and representations / Eve V. Clark -- Language and mind : let's get the issues straight! / Stephen G. Levinson -- The key is social cognition / Michael Tomasello -- Sex, syntax, and semantics / Lera Boroditsky, Lauren A. Schmidt, and Webb Phillips -- Speaking versus thinking about objects and actions / Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, and Silvia P. Gennari -- The effects of spatial language on spatial representation : setting some boundaries / Edward Munnich and Barbara Landau -- Language and thought online : cognitive consequences of linguistic relativity / Dan I. Slobin -- Why we're so smart / Dedre Gentner -- Does language help animals think? / Stan A. Kuczaj II and Jennifer L. Hendry -- What makes us smart? Core knowledge and natural language / Elizabeth S. Spelke -- Conceptual and linguistic factors in inductive projection : how do young children recognize commonalities between animals and plants? / Kayoko Inagaki and Giyoo Hatano -- Language for thought : coming to understand false beliefs / Jill G. de Villiers and Peter A. de Villiers -- Space under construction : language-specific spatial categorization in first language acquisition / Melissa Bowerman and Soonja Choi -- Reevaluating linguistic relativity : language-specific categories and the role of universal ontological knowledge in the construal of individuation / Mutsumi Imai and Reiko Mazuka -- Interaction of language type and referent type in the development of nonverbal classification preferences / John A. Lucy and Suzanne Gaskins -- Thought before language : do we think ergative? / Susan Goldin-Meadow.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | P 37 .L36 2003 | 271945 | Stacks | Available | - |