Semantics and Cognition

Author(s)
Goddard, Cliff
Wierzbicka, Anna
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
The words and grammar of any language encode a vast array of complex prepackaged concepts, most of them language-specific and culture-related. These concepts are manipulated routinely in almost every waking hour of most people's lives. They are largely acquired in infancy and they are intersubjectively shared among members of the speech community. It is hard to imagine such elaborate and variable representation systems not having a substantial role to play in ordinary cognition, and yet the language-and-thought question continues to be a contested one across the various disciplines and sub-disciplines of cognitive science. This article provides an overview from the vantage point of linguistic semantics.
Citation
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(2), p. 125-135
ISSN
1939-5086
1939-5078
Link
Language
en
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Title
Semantics and Cognition
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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