Anna M Borghi

The Freedom of Words

Abstractness and the Power of Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This volume explores how language, and particularly abstract language, shapes our thought. Academic researchers and graduate students in philosophy of language and cognitive sciences will benefit"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 305
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9781108842907
• ISBN-10: 1108842909
• Artikelnr.: 67205756

Autorenporträt

Anna M. Borghi is Associate Professor of Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome and Associate Researcher at the Institue of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian Research Council, Italy. She is interested in how language and body influence how we think and interact with the physical and social environment. She has published on affordances, imitation, categorization and concepts, and language. She co-authored Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Power of Language: 1. Language as a physical tool
2. Language as an inner/cognitive tool
3. Language as a social tool
4. Evolving language in interaction
Part II. Abstractness: 5. Different varieties of abstract concepts
6. Abstractness and language as physical tool
7. Abstractness and language as an inner tool
8. Abstractness and language as a social tool
Conclusion.