Why Language Matters for Theory of Mind

ISBN: 9780195159912 出版年：2012 页码：368 Oxford University Press

1. Introduction: Why Language Matters 2. Language pathways into the community of minds 3. Communication, relationships, and individual differences in children's understanding of mind 4. Conversation, pretence and theory of mind 5. Talking about "new" information: the given/new distinction and children's developing theory of mind 6. The developmental origins of meaning for mental terms 7. Language promotes structural alignment in the acquisition of mentalistic concepts 8. Language and the development of cognitive flexibility: Implications for theory of mind 9. Representational development and false-belief understanding 10. Can language acquisition give children a point of view? 11. What does "that" have to do with point of view? Conflicting desires and "want" in German 12. Linguistic communication and social understanding 13. The role of language in theory-of-mind development: What deaf children tell us 14. How language facilitates the acquisition of false-belief understanding in children with autism 15. Genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in language and theory of mind: Common or distinct?