32.757, Books: The Study of Speech Processes: Boucher

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:04:33
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Study of Speech Processes: Boucher

 


Title: The Study of Speech Processes 
Subtitle: Addressing the Writing Bias in Language Science 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/study-speech-processes-addressing-writing-bias-language-science?format=HB 


Author: Victor J. Boucher

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107185036 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107185036 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107185036 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

There has been a longstanding bias in the study of spoken language towards
using writing to analyse speech. This approach is problematic in that it
assumes language to be derived from an autonomous mental capacity to assemble
words into sentences, while failing to acknowledge culture-specific ideas
linked to writing. Words and sentences are writing constructs that hardly
capture the sound-making actions involved in spoken language. This book brings
to light research that has long revealed structures present in all languages
but which do not match the writing-induced concepts of traditional linguistic
analysis. It demonstrates that language processes are not physiologically
autonomous, and that speech structures are structures of spoken language. It
then illustrates how speech acts can be studied using instrumental records,
and how multisensory experiences in semantic memory couple to these acts,
offering a biologically-grounded understanding of how spoken language conveys
meaning and why it develops only in humans.
 



Part I. Questions of Ontology: Writing and the Speech-Language Divide; 1. How
we are Introduced to the Study of Spoken Language; 2. The
Modality-Independence Argument and Storylines of the Origin of Symbolic
Language; 3. The Recent History of Attempts to Ground Orthographic Concepts of
Language Theory; Part II. Questions of Epistemology: The Role of Instrumental
Observations; 4. Recognizing the Bias; 5. (Re-) Defining the Writing Bias, and
the Essential Role of Instrumental Invalidation; Part III. The Structure of
Speech Acts: 6. Utterances as Communicative Acts; 7. Relating to Basic Units:
Syllable-Like Cycles; 8. Relating Neural Oscillations to Syllable Cycles and
Chunks; 9. Breath-Units of Speech and their Structural Effects; Part IV. The
Processing of Speech Meaning: 10. The Neural Coding of Semantics; 11.
Processes of Utterance Interpretation: For a Neuropragmatics; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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