The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume I

by Michael Tomasello (Editor)

Overview

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language structure in terms already familiar to psychologists, thus defining the next era in the scientific study of language.

The Classic Edition volumes re-introduce some of the most important cognitive and functional linguists working in the field. They include a new introduction by Michael Tomasello in which he reviews what has changed since the volumes first published and highlights the fundamental insights of the original authors. The New Psychology of Language volumes are a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how cognitive and functional linguistics has become the thriving perspective on the scientific study of language that it is today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317693512
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/05/2014
Series:	Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	298
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes. Books include First Verbs (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Primate Cognition (Oxford University Press, 1997, with J. Call), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (Harvard University Press, 2003), Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), and A Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Classic Edition, M. Tomasello

Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure, M. Tomasello

1. Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar, R.W. Langacker
2. The Functional Approach to Grammar, T. Givón
3. The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language, W. Croft
4. Language and the Flow of Thought, W. Chafe
5. The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective, A. Wierzbicka
6. Emergent Grammar, P.J. Hopper
7. Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories, J.R. Taylor
8. Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language, A.E. Goldberg
9. The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, R.D. Van Valin, Jr.
10. Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration, G. Fauconnier