Discusses the hotly debated subject of the extent to which the structure of language is inseparable from thought. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, the philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.
Discusses the hotly debated subject of the extent to which the structure of language is inseparable from thought. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, the philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.
Wallace Chafe is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has focused in part on the Seneca language in New York and the Caddo language in Oklahoma. He has investigated differences between speaking and writing; the functions of prosody in spoken language; the emotion underlying laughter and humor, ways in which language can be beautiful; and relations between language and thought.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Background 2. Ground rules Part II. Thoughts and their Properties: 3. The priority of thoughts 4. The path from a thought to a sound 5. How thoughts are structured 6. How thoughts are experienced 7. How thoughts are shared 8. How thoughts flow through time Part III. Verbalization Illustrated: 9. From a thought to a sound in English 10. From a thought to a sound in a polysynthetic language Part IV. Related Issues: 11. The translation paradox 12. Repeated verbalizations of the same thought 13. Rethinking Whorf 14. Lessons from literature Part V. Common Ways of Orienting Thoughts: 15. Small numbers and subitizing 16. Thoughts and gender 17. Time, tense, memory, and imagination 18. Relating ideas to reality Part VI. The Emotional Component of Thoughts: 19. Emotional involvement in a conversation 20. The feeling of nonseriousness 21. How language can be beautiful Epilogue Index.
Prologue Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Background 2. Ground rules Part II. Thoughts and their Properties: 3. The priority of thoughts 4. The path from a thought to a sound 5. How thoughts are structured 6. How thoughts are experienced 7. How thoughts are shared 8. How thoughts flow through time Part III. Verbalization Illustrated: 9. From a thought to a sound in English 10. From a thought to a sound in a polysynthetic language Part IV. Related Issues: 11. The translation paradox 12. Repeated verbalizations of the same thought 13. Rethinking Whorf 14. Lessons from literature Part V. Common Ways of Orienting Thoughts: 15. Small numbers and subitizing 16. Thoughts and gender 17. Time, tense, memory, and imagination 18. Relating ideas to reality Part VI. The Emotional Component of Thoughts: 19. Emotional involvement in a conversation 20. The feeling of nonseriousness 21. How language can be beautiful Epilogue Index.
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