Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning: Meeting : Selected Papers: 12 (Springer Series in Language and Communication) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540122516 ISBN 13: 9783540122517

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1983

Synopsis

This volume owes its existance to many different sources and influ- ences. It is based on a meeting that took place from April 30 to May 2, 1982 at the University of Technology in Darmstadt. The idea for that meeting came while we were elaborating a research program on concept development and the development of word meaning; we were inspired by Werner Deutsch of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and by the Volkswagen Foundation in Hannover (Federal Republic of Germany) to organize an international conference on the same topic. We set out to invite a long list of colleagues, and we only regret that not all of them were able to attend. This volume should not be viewed as the proceedings of that conference. On the one hand, it does not include all of the papers presented there, and on the other hand, some of our colleagues who were unable to attend were nevertheless willing to write contributions. Furthermore, some who did pre- sent papers at the conference revised and reformulated them or even submitted completely new ones for this book. We feel, however, that in the end we have arranged a valuable collection of work in the theory and research of a field that has occupied not only psychologists and linguists, but also philosophers, anthropologists, and many others for a long time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540122516
• ISBN 13: 9783540122517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 349
• Editor: Seiler T. B., Wannenmacher Wolfgang