Words and the Mind: How Words Capture Human Experience - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195311124 ISBN 13: 9780195311129

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2010

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As the authors' positions on theoretical issues span the range of viewpoints, the book will provide a fair and balanced treatment of the debates associated with the language-thought interface. It will appeal to researchers and students in psychology and linguistics, with interests in word meaning, concepts, and their development.

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Barbara Malt received her Ph.D. from Stanford University with post-doctoral training at U.C. Berkeley and UMass, and she is currently Professor of Psychology at Lehigh University. Malt is interested in how people understand the world, how they talk about the world, and what the relation is between the two. She has served as associate editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition and as Chair of the Psychology Department at Lehigh.

Phil Wolff received his PhD degree from Northwestern University and is currently an assistant professor at Emory University. His research concerns the relationship between language and cognition, with particular interests in computational models of causal meaning and reasoning. Wolff is on the editorial board of the journal Cognitive Science.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195311124
• ISBN 13: 9780195311129
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
• Herausgeber: Malt Barbara C., Wolff Phillip
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