Language in the Brain - Softcover

Schnelle, Helmut

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521739713 ISBN 13: 9780521739719

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Linguistics, neurocognition, and phenomenological psychology are fundamentally different fields of research. Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. Consequently the first part of the book is a systematic introduction to the function of the form and meaning-organising brain component - with the essential core elements being perceptions, actions, attention, emotion and feeling. Their descriptions provide foundations for experiences based on semantics and pragmatics. The second part is addressed to non-linguists and presents the structural foundations of currently established linguistic frameworks. This book should be serious reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of language, in which evolution, functional organisation and hierarchies are explained by reference to brain architecture and dynamics.

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Review:

"The book is informative [and] ambitious."
Andrew Kertesz, The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Book Description:

Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. For academic researchers and graduate students in the field of neurolinguistics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521739713
• ISBN 13: 9780521739719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244