17.2781, Books: Cognitive Science/Psycholinguistics: Pishwa (Ed)

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Subject: 17.2781, Books: Cognitive Science/Psycholinguistics: Pishwa (Ed)

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Date: 20-Sep-2006
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Language and Memory: Pishwa (Ed) 

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:55:26
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Language and Memory: Pishwa (Ed) 

Title: Language and Memory 
Subtitle: Aspects of Knowledge Representation 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 173  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
	   http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110189771-1&l=E 

Editor: Hanna Pishwa, Technical University of Berlin

Hardback: ISBN: 3110189771 Pages: 447 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 3110189771 Pages: 447 Price: U.S. $ 132.30

Abstract:

This volume presents an entirely new, expanded cognitive view of language
by examining linguistic structure and its use in communication from the
point of view of memory, thus providing a novel way of analysing language.
The fourteen chapters, authored by linguists and psychologists, show the
need for such an approach and illustrate that the properties of numerous
linguistic structures reflect those of memory in various ways. Many
different methodologies are presented because of the interdisciplinary
nature of the volume, without reducing the comprehensibility and
comparability of the contributions. Core linguistic areas are discussed in
the contributions embracing syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
analysis; psychological aspects are restrict-ed to memory systems and their
properties. 

The introduction provides a concise overview of memory, and then three
sections examine linguistic phenomena from various angles relating them to
memory. In the first section, the contributions emphasize the issue of
syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic organization in various linguistic phenomena
with a focus on syntax and their locus in memory. The contributions in the
second part investigate structures with non-fixed functions showing that
they tend to be connected to a certain submemory sharing their features
such as subjectivity and evaluation. The concern of the last section is
discourse comprising coherence, evidentiality, politeness, and persuasion. 

The book will be stimulating for researchers and students of linguistic
core areas as well as those occupied with developmental aspects and
theoretical aspects of language. It also provides new insights into methods
of analysis both in linguistics and in cognitive psychology. The individual
chapters are comprehensible to linguists who have no background in
psychology and to psychologists who have no background in linguistics. 

Contents

Introduction 
Hanna Pishwa

Part 1. Linguistic structure and memory

A constructivist epistemology for the language sciences 
Ngoni Chipere

'What's a nice NP like you doing in a place like this?' The grammar and use
of English inversions 
Gert Webelhuth, Susanne Wendlandt, Niko Gerbl and Martin Walkow

Co-occurrence and constructions
Paul Deane

On the reduction of complexity: Some thoughts on the interaction between
conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and human memory 
Rainer Schulze

Making ends meet
Uwe Multhaup

Part 2. Select linguistic notions and memory

Evaluation and cognition: Inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion 
Monika Bednarke

Causality and subjectivity: The causal connectives of Modern Greek 
Eliza Kitis

Expression of goals in communication: the case of multifunctional 'try' 
Hanna Pishwa

What psycholinguistic negation research tells us about the nature of the
working memory representations utilized in language comprehension
Barbara Kaup

Part 3. Discoursal units and memory 

It utterly boggles the mind: Knowledge, common ground and coherence
Wolfram Bublitz

Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in
narrative retelling
Ilana Mushin

Conversation memory: Intentions, politeness, and the social context
Thomas Holtgraves

Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory
Roger Kreuz and Aaron Ashley

Index 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Greek (ell)

Written In: English  (eng)

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