Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

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Collects for the first time Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker is a highly eminent cognitive scientist, and these essays emphasize the importance of language and its connections to cognition, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature.

Über den Autor

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time and The New Republic, and is the author of eight books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought, and, most recently, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Formal models of language learning

2. A computational theory of the mental imagery medium

3. Rules and connections in human language

4. When does human object recognition use a viewer-centered reference frame?

5. Natural language and natural selection

6. The acquisition of argument structure

7. The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source

8. Why nature and nurture won't go away

9. The faculty of language: What's special about it?

10. So how does the mind work?

11. Deep commonalities between life and mind

12. Rationales for indirect speech: The theory of the strategic speaker

13. The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language

Author Biography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190259280
ISBN-10:	0190259280
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pinker, Steven
Hersteller:	OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Steven Pinker
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2015
Gewicht:	0,669 kg

Artikel-ID: 108610419

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Formal models of language learning

2. A computational theory of the mental imagery medium

3. Rules and connections in human language

4. When does human object recognition use a viewer-centered reference frame?

5. Natural language and natural selection

6. The acquisition of argument structure

7. The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source

8. Why nature and nurture won't go away

9. The faculty of language: What's special about it?

10. So how does the mind work?

11. Deep commonalities between life and mind

12. Rationales for indirect speech: The theory of the strategic speaker

13. The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language

Author Biography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190259280
ISBN-10:	0190259280
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pinker, Steven
Hersteller:	OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Steven Pinker
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2015
Gewicht:	0,669 kg