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9 February 2010

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Mental States

Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos
University of New England

2007. x, 362 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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978 90 272 3103 1 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00
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The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give into the organization and structure of the mind and specific mental states. Topics and linguistic phenomena discussed include narratives and story telling, language development, figurative language, linguistic categorization, linguistic relativity, and the linguistic coding of mental states such as perceptions and beliefs. With contributions at the forefront of current debate, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in language and the cognitive structures that support it.


Table of contents

Preface
vii
List of contributors
ix–x
1. Mental categories in natural languages
Drew Khlentzos and Andrea C. Schalley
1–10
2. A culture-neutral metalanguage for mental state concepts
Cliff Goddard
11–35
3. Shape and colour in language and thought
Anna Wierzbicka
37–60
4. Universal and language-specific aspects of "propositional attitudes": Russian vs. English
Anna Gladkova
61–83
5. Mental states reflected in cognitive lexemes related to memory: A case in Korean
Kyung-Joo Yoon
85–107
6. Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition
Zhengdao Ye
109–132
7. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf: Spontaneous written narratives by a child with autism
Lesley Stirling and Graham Barrington
133–171
8. Interaction between language and cognition in language development
Heather Winskel
173–190
9. What figurative language development reveals about the mind
Herbert L. Colston
191–212
10. Would you rather 'embert a cudsert' or 'cudsert an embert'? How spelling patterns at the beginning of English disyllables can cue grammatical category
Joanne Arciuli and Linda Cupples
213–237
11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern Australia
Brett Baker
239–265
12. Events masquerading as entities: Pseudorelative perception verb complements in Mawng (Australian) and Romance languages
Ruth J. Singer
267–288
13. Word and construction as units of categorization: The case of change predicates in Estonian
Renate Pajusalu and Ilona Tragel
289–310
14. Categories and concepts in phonology: Theory and practice
Helen Fraser
311–330
15. You can run, but: Another look at linguistic relativity
Roger Wales
331–350
Name index
351–354
Language index
355
Subject index
357–360
Table of contents of volume 1
361–362