Concepts in the brain : the view from cross-linguistic diversity / David Kemmerer.

There are roughly 6500 languages in the world, and they display numerous similarities and differences in the concepts that they encode. This text argues that cognitive neuroscientists must take these findings seriously if they are ever to achieve a truly comprehensive, pan-human account of the corti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kemmerer, David L. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Cognitive neuroscience. Typology (Linguistics) Language acquisition. Language and languages. Semantics. Psycholinguistics. semantics. psycholinguistics. Semantics Psycholinguistics Language and languages Cognitive neuroscience Language acquisition
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Two perspectives on concepts
The perspective from semantic typology
The perspective from cognitive neuroscience
Conceptual domains
Objects
Actions
Spatial relations
Broader questions
How do language-specific concepts relate to cognition?
Are we ever conscious of concepts?
Final remarks
References
Language index
Author index
Subject index.

Concepts in the brain : the view from cross-linguistic diversity / David Kemmerer.

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