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Cognitive practices : human language and human knowledge / Rita Nolan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 1994.ISBN:
  • 0631189734
  • 0631189742
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.93 20
Contents:
1. Language and Cognitive Dynamics. 1. The Question. 2. Language Realism. 3. Cognitive Dynamics. 4. Society and Language. 5. Desiderata for a Theory of Language. 6. The Standard Theory. 7. Foci for Revision -- 2. The Code Metaphor for Languages. 8. The Semantic Content of the Code Metaphor. 9. Referential Semantics: Breaking the Code? 10. The New Code Theory. 11. Mature Competency and Language Learning -- 3. Language Entry. 12. Linguistic Constructionalism. 13. The Fallacy of Linguistic Supervenience. 14. Semantic Theory and Language Learning. 15. Reconceptualizing Language Acquisition. 16. How Long Does It Take? 17. Superordination. 18. The Cognitive Import of Superordination. 19. The Categorial Structure of Discourse. 20. Conclusion -- 4. Society in Mind. 21. The Superordination Hypothesis. 22. Unavailable Routes to Language Entry. 23. Two Questions. 24. Interpreting Early Speech. 25. Early Syntax. 26. But What Is Predication? -- 5. From Response to Assertion. 27. Is There a Transition from Response to Assertion? 28. Subjects and Predicates. 29. Formal Approaches to Predication. 30. Sensation, Perception, Conception and Judgment. 31. Categories of Perception, Categories of Conception. 32. The Generality Constraint. 33. Developmental Data. 34. From Perceptual Categories to Conceptual Categories. 35. The Emergence of Predication. 36. Some Consequences of "Thick" Superordination -- 6. Discursive Practices. 37. Mutant Predicates. 38. Conceptual Structures. 39. Towards a Topology of Concepts. 40. Conceptual Spaces and Cognitive Practices. 41. Meaning as Analogical. 42. Discourse Genres. 43. Non-Gricean Pragmatics. 44. Socially Contingent Phenomena. 45. The Attitudes as Socially Contingent. 46. Substructural Indeterminacy.
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Bibliography: p158-164. - Includes index.

1. Language and Cognitive Dynamics. 1. The Question. 2. Language Realism. 3. Cognitive Dynamics. 4. Society and Language. 5. Desiderata for a Theory of Language. 6. The Standard Theory. 7. Foci for Revision -- 2. The Code Metaphor for Languages. 8. The Semantic Content of the Code Metaphor. 9. Referential Semantics: Breaking the Code? 10. The New Code Theory. 11. Mature Competency and Language Learning -- 3. Language Entry. 12. Linguistic Constructionalism. 13. The Fallacy of Linguistic Supervenience. 14. Semantic Theory and Language Learning. 15. Reconceptualizing Language Acquisition. 16. How Long Does It Take? 17. Superordination. 18. The Cognitive Import of Superordination. 19. The Categorial Structure of Discourse. 20. Conclusion -- 4. Society in Mind. 21. The Superordination Hypothesis. 22. Unavailable Routes to Language Entry. 23. Two Questions. 24. Interpreting Early Speech. 25. Early Syntax. 26. But What Is Predication? -- 5. From Response to Assertion. 27. Is There a Transition from Response to Assertion? 28. Subjects and Predicates. 29. Formal Approaches to Predication. 30. Sensation, Perception, Conception and Judgment. 31. Categories of Perception, Categories of Conception. 32. The Generality Constraint. 33. Developmental Data. 34. From Perceptual Categories to Conceptual Categories. 35. The Emergence of Predication. 36. Some Consequences of "Thick" Superordination -- 6. Discursive Practices. 37. Mutant Predicates. 38. Conceptual Structures. 39. Towards a Topology of Concepts. 40. Conceptual Spaces and Cognitive Practices. 41. Meaning as Analogical. 42. Discourse Genres. 43. Non-Gricean Pragmatics. 44. Socially Contingent Phenomena. 45. The Attitudes as Socially Contingent. 46. Substructural Indeterminacy.