I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive by Daniela Isac,Charles Reiss PDF

By Daniela Isac,Charles Reiss

I-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive technology. In an interesting, down-to-earth kind Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss supply a crystal-clear demonstration of the applying of the medical strategy in linguistic idea. Their presentation of the study programme encouraged and led by way of Noam Chomsky indicates how the focal point of conception and examine in linguistics shifted from treating language as a disembodied, human-external entity to cognitive biolinguistics - the research of language as a human cognitive method embedded in the mind/brain of every person. The habitual topic of equivalence periods in linguistic computation ties jointly the presentation of fabric from phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. an analogous subject is used to aid scholars comprehend where of linguistics within the broader context of the cognitive sciences, by means of drawing on examples from imaginative and prescient, audition, or even animal cognition.

This textbook is exclusive in its integration of empirical problems with linguistic research, engagement with philosophical questions that come up within the examine of language, and remedy of the historical past of the sector. issues starting from allophony to reduplication, ergativity, and unfavourable polarity are invoked to teach the results of findings in cognitive biolinguistics for philosophical matters like reference, the mind-body challenge, and nature-nurture debates.

This textbook includes quite a few routines and courses for additional analyzing in addition to principles for pupil initiatives. A significant other web site with tips for teachers and solutions to the workouts contains a sequence of pdf slide displays to accompany the educating of every topic.

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