31.3819, Books: Thought-based Linguistics: Chafe

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:56:58
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Thought-based Linguistics: Chafe

 


Title: Thought-based Linguistics 
Subtitle: How Languages Turn Thoughts into Sounds 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/thought-based-linguistics-how-languages-turn-thoughts-sounds?format=PB 


Author: Wallace Chafe

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108431569 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108431569 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108431569 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

The extent to which language is inseparable from thought has long been a major
subject of debate across linguistics, psychology, philosophy and other
disciplines. In this study, Wallace Chafe presents a thought-based theory of
language that goes beyond traditional views that semantics, syntax, and sounds
are sufficient to account for language design. Language begins with thoughts
in the mind of a speaker and ends by affecting thoughts in the mind of a
listener. This obvious observation is seldom incorporated in descriptions of
language design for two major reasons. First, the role of thought is usually
usurped by semantics. But semantic structures are imposed on thought by
languages and differ from one language to another. Second, thought does not
lend itself to familiar methods of linguistic analysis. Chafe suggests ways of
describing thoughts, traces the path languages follow from thoughts to sounds,
and explores ways in which thoughts are oriented in time, memory, imagination,
reality, and emotions.

Prologue; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Background; 2. Ground rules; Part II.
Thoughts and their Properties: 3. The priority of thoughts; 4. The path from a
thought to a sound; 5. How thoughts are structured; 6. How thoughts are
experienced; 7. How thoughts are shared; 8. How thoughts flow through time;
Part III. Verbalization Illustrated: 9. From a thought to a sound in English;
10. From a thought to a sound in a polysynthetic language; Part IV. Related
Issues: 11. The translation paradox; 12. Repeated verbalizations of the same
thought; 13. Rethinking Whorf; 14. Lessons from literature; Part V. Common
Ways of Orienting Thoughts: 15. Small numbers and subitizing; 16. Thoughts and
gender; 17. Time, tense, memory, and imagination; 18. Relating ideas to
reality; Part VI. The Emotional Component of Thoughts: 19. Emotional
involvement in a conversation; 20. The feeling of nonseriousness; 21. How
language can be beautiful; Epilogue; Index.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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