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Books: Cognitive Science/Psycholinguistics: Pishwa (Ed)
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1. Julia
Ulrich,
Language and Memory: Pishwa (Ed)
Message 1: Language and Memory: Pishwa (Ed)
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Date: 20-Sep-2006
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Language and Memory: Pishwa (Ed)
Title: Language and Memory
Subtitle: Aspects of Knowledge Representation
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 173
Published: 2006
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110189771-1&l=E
Editor: Hanna Pishwa, Technical University of Berlin
Hardback: ISBN: 3110189771 Pages: 447 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 3110189771 Pages: 447 Price: U.S. $ 132.30
Abstract:
This volume presents an entirely new, expanded cognitive view of language
by examining linguistic structure and its use in communication from the
point of view of memory, thus providing a novel way of analysing language.
The fourteen chapters, authored by linguists and psychologists, show the
need for such an approach and illustrate that the properties of numerous
linguistic structures reflect those of memory in various ways. Many
different methodologies are presented because of the interdisciplinary
nature of the volume, without reducing the comprehensibility and
comparability of the contributions. Core linguistic areas are discussed in
the contributions embracing syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
analysis; psychological aspects are restrict-ed to memory systems and their
properties.
The introduction provides a concise overview of memory, and then three
sections examine linguistic phenomena from various angles relating them to
memory. In the first section, the contributions emphasize the issue of
syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic organization in various linguistic phenomena
with a focus on syntax and their locus in memory. The contributions in the
second part investigate structures with non-fixed functions showing that
they tend to be connected to a certain submemory sharing their features
such as subjectivity and evaluation. The concern of the last section is
discourse comprising coherence, evidentiality, politeness, and persuasion.
The book will be stimulating for researchers and students of linguistic
core areas as well as those occupied with developmental aspects and
theoretical aspects of language. It also provides new insights into methods
of analysis both in linguistics and in cognitive psychology. The individual
chapters are comprehensible to linguists who have no background in
psychology and to psychologists who have no background in linguistics.
Contents
Introduction
Hanna Pishwa
Part 1. Linguistic structure and memory
A constructivist epistemology for the language sciences
Ngoni Chipere
'What's a nice NP like you doing in a place like this?' The grammar and use
of English inversions
Gert Webelhuth, Susanne Wendlandt, Niko Gerbl and Martin Walkow
Co-occurrence and constructions
Paul Deane
On the reduction of complexity: Some thoughts on the interaction between
conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and human memory
Rainer Schulze
Making ends meet
Uwe Multhaup
Part 2. Select linguistic notions and memory
Evaluation and cognition: Inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion
Monika Bednarke
Causality and subjectivity: The causal connectives of Modern Greek
Eliza Kitis
Expression of goals in communication: the case of multifunctional 'try'
Hanna Pishwa
What psycholinguistic negation research tells us about the nature of the
working memory representations utilized in language comprehension
Barbara Kaup
Part 3. Discoursal units and memory
It utterly boggles the mind: Knowledge, common ground and coherence
Wolfram Bublitz
Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in
narrative retelling
Ilana Mushin
Conversation memory: Intentions, politeness, and the social context
Thomas Holtgraves
Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory
Roger Kreuz and Aaron Ashley
Index
Linguistic Field(s):
Cognitive Science
Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Greek (ell)
Written In: English (eng )
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