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I Thought I Said

What Language Reveals About the Structure of Thought

Vyvyan Evans (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2015
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-958984-5 (ISBN)

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Language allows us to express our thoughts and ideas. Every day we use language to tell others - friends, colleagues, family members, casual acquaintances, lovers - whether we are happy or sad, to convey whether we are angry or bored. We use language to compose an email, to purchase groceries in the supermarket, to buy a bus ticket. We need language to propose marriage, to argue, or to declare undying love. We use it to make requests and demands, to signal our wishes and desires, to say whether we prefer our coffee with or without sugar. Language is indispensable in making public our thoughts. But while we use language to get our thoughts across, the way language is patterned in expressing these thoughts also provides us with insight into the very nature of our minds. In I Thought I Said Vyvyan Evans demonstrates the ways in which language reveals how we think. Language can illuminate, to the scientist, the way in which thought is structured. It reveals underlying features of mind design.

Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University. His research concerns the relationship between language and mind, and how they co-conspire to produce meaning. He has published eleven books, including The Structure of Time (Benjamins 2006), How Words Mean (OUP 2009), Language and Time (CUP 2013), and The Language Myth (CUP 2014).

Prologue: Heady Stuff ; 1. Patterns in language, patterns in the mind ; 2. Time is our fruit fly ; 3. Concepts body forth ; 4. The concept-making engine (or how to build a baby) ; 5. Webs of words ; 6. The human meaning-making engine ; 7. The act of creation ; 8. The anatomy of language

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.4.2015
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-958984-4 / 0199589844
ISBN-13	978-0-19-958984-5 / 9780199589845
Zustand	Neuware