Linguistics, neurocognition, and phenomenological psychology are fundamentally different fields of research. Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. Consequently the first part of the book is a systematic introduction to the function of the form and meaning-organising brain component - with the essential core elements being perceptions, actions, attention, emotion and feeling. Their descriptions provide foundations for experiences based on semantics and pragmatics. The second part is addressed to non-linguists and presents the structural foundations of currently established linguistic frameworks. This book should be serious reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of language, in which evolution, functional organisation and hierarchies are explained by reference to brain architecture and dynamics.

- Bridges the gap between neuroscience and principles of linguistics, and provides an interdisciplinary approach to perspectives of language form, use and meaning - Divided into two parts, allowing a basic and more comprehensive view for the beginner and advanced reader - Fully illustrated, with comprehensive descriptions to help understanding of the models of translating formalist linguistic structure descriptions into plausible neural models