Language in the Brain

Helmut Schnelle

ISBN 10: 0521515491 / ISBN 13: 9780521515498

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Language in the Brain

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: New

Edition: 1.

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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.

Review:

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