Slawomir Wacewicz

Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Labels

A Cognitivist Perspective

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The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging implications for the study of the human mind. Such is the spirit of this book. While categorisation may be the single most basic cognitive process in organisms, and as an area of inquiry, it is fundamental to Cognitive Science as a whole, at the other end of the spectrum, high-level cognition is organised and permeated by language, giving rise to categories that count and function as concepts. Working from considering the philosophical assumptions of the cognitivist perspective, this study offers a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-653-96824-8
EAN: 9783653968248
Produktnummer: 25682405
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'690 KB

Über den Autor

Slawomir Wacewicz is an Assistant Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He holds a PhD in Linguistics. His research interest focuses on the evolution of language, evolution of cognition, and the philosophy of language and mind.