Language and Representation
A Socio-Naturalistic Approach to Human Development
by Chris Sinha
Paperback (Published)
(July 2017)
ISBN: 9781845534288
Price: $29.95
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Hardback (Published)
(July 2017)
ISBN: 9781845534271
Price: $95.00
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What is the nature of conceptual representation, and how is it related to semantic knowledge? How are cognitive and linguistic representations acquired, and in what sense can cognition and its development be said to be social in all aspects? What is the relationship between discursive representations, based in language and actuated in communication, and evolutionary and developmental biological processes? This classic book, first published in 1988, offers a synthetic approach to language and representation drawn from biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and semiotics. Chris Sinha argues for the centrality of the developmental and social perspectives for cognitive science, offering one of the first comprehensive critiques of nativist, modularist and cognitivist approaches that take mental representation as their unanalyzed point of departure. He advances a socio-naturalistic alternative based upon semiotic and pragmatic analyses of the nature of communicative representation, emphasizing the materiality of representation. He explores the epistemological as well as psychological implications of this dialectical analysis, situating it within an epigenetic viewpoint on development and evolution and linking this to connectionist computational theories. The second edition of this foundational work in language and cognition includes a new chapter on the roots in cognitive psychology of key concepts in Cognitive Linguistics, as well as an extended authors preface evaluating the book in the light of the authors subsequent work, and in relation to points of view in Cognitive Linguistics.
- By (author) Chris Sinha
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