Semantics and Cognition

Title
Semantics and Cognition
Publication Date
2011
Author(s)
Goddard, Cliff
Wierzbicka, Anna
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1002/wcs.101
UNE publication id
une:7855
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.
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Citation
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(2), p. 125-135
ISSN
1939-5086
1939-5078
Start page
125
End page
135

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