Language in the mind

Language 87: 830-844, 2011

The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 2014

2007

We all know that language is not possible without a mind. However, there are different ways in which language involves mental activity. The focus of the volume presented here will be precisely on one of those ways, in which the lexicon is the guiding principle of linguistic activity. This volume presents a selection of contributions around the topic of 'language, mind and the lexicon' which were part of the discussions at the fourth biannual conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, held in Saragossa (Spain) in 2004. The main topic of the conference was lexical meaning and different approaches to its study, and this choice was a consequence of the study that at the time the organizers were carrying out within the research project sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology entitled "Contrastive lexical categorization, with special emphasis on English" (ref. BFF2002-168). The main lines of this research project are described in the first chapter of the book, and are a good starting point for the discussion of many related issues that are presented by all the contributors in the following pages.

2012

Contents: Barbara Eizaga Rebollar/Jose Maria Garcia Nunez/ Maria Angelez Zarco Tejada: Preface - Maria Tadea Diaz Hormigo/Carmen Varo Varo: Neology and Cognition - Gerard Fernandez Smith/Marta Sanchez-Saus Laserna/Luis Escoriza Morera: Studies on Lexical Availability: The Current Situation and Some Future Prospects - Maria Luisa Mora Millan: Adverbs in the Internet Lexicon: New Modes of Signification - Maria Angeles Zarco Tejada: `Holding' Metaphorical Meaning from a Computational Linguistics Approach: The Verb Hold and its Counterparts in Spanish - Jose Maria Garcia Nunez: Attitude Verbs and Nominalization - Carmen Noya Gallardo: Cleft Sentences: Semantic Properties and Communicative Meanings - Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibanez/Alicia Galera Masegosa: Metaphoric and Metonymic Complexes in Phrasal Verb Interpretation: Metaphoric Chains - Barbara Eizaga Rebollar: Meaning Adjustment Processes in Idiom Variants - Jose Luis Guijarro Morales: Beauty and Art in Science - Ana Isabel ...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004

This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the "biolinguistic" approach that has guided Chomsky's work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mind. n o a m c h o m s k y

1970

Functions of Language, 2009