31.1689, Books: On the Genesis of Thought and Language: Koshelev

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Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 21:49:03
From: Mairi Koroleva [lrc.phouse at gmail.com]
Subject: On the Genesis of Thought and Language: Koshelev

 


Title: On the Genesis of Thought and Language 
Subtitle: The Emergence of Concepts and Propositions. The Nature and Structure of
Human Category. On the Impact of Culture on Thought and Language 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: LRC Publishing House
	   http://www.lrc-press.ru/
	

Book URL: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/out-of-series/on-the-genesis-of-thought-and-language?rq=koshelev 


Author: Alexey Koshelev
Translator: Alexander Kravchenko
Translator: Jillian Smith

Hardback: ISBN:  9781644693148 Pages: 238 Price: U.S. $ 109


Abstract:

In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores
fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts
appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so
many languages. Chapter One introduces the fundamental dichotomy “visual
(exogenous) vs. functional (endogenous)” cognitive units; these units are used
to give non-verbal definitions of mental representations of various objects,
actions, and situations. In particular, definitions of such concepts as GLASS,
CHAIR, BANANA, TREE, LAKE, RUN, and some others are given. Chapter Two
discusses how children form concepts, hierarchical relationships, and
propositions (conceptual ‘utterances’). It is shown that the initial units of
the child’s representation of the world are pre-conceptual cognitive
units—mental representations of whole situations. In the course of two
consecutive cycles in the child’s cognitive development, these units transform
into (a) primary notions—object and motor concepts, and (b) binary role
relationships. Together, they constitute the elementary language of thought
which, in the process of thinking, is used to build conceptual
structures—propositions. It is further demonstrated that, immediately after
the formation of thought, the child begins to develop his native language in
which concrete and motor concepts become initial meanings of nouns and verbs,
while propositions become the meanings of the child’s expressions. The chapter
concludes with a contrastive analysis of the proposed approach and Aristotle’s
and Chomsky’s views on thought and language. Chapter Three analyzes how a
community’s culture affects its language. It is demonstrated that the progress
of a community, the main constituent of the civilizational component of its
culture, enhances the development of the content component of language by
extending the range of its lexical and grammatical meanings. In the context of
this analysis, Daniel Everett’s (2008) hypothesis that culture affects
language structure is discussed. In the subsequent sections, models of the
development of human and social activity are offered. These models comprise
three components: Activity (main component), Thought, and Language (auxiliary
components that ensure the successful realization of activities). The models
are illustrated with examples of some concrete societies.

Preview is available on our website:
http://www.lrc-press.ru/index.php?b=1246&lang=en

Please, note, that we are not selling the book, it is available from our US
Partner Publisher
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=143773




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