Language and Thought: Interdisciplinary Themes

ISBN: 9780521637589 出版年：1998 页码：340 Peter Carruthers Jill Boucher Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction: opening up options Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher Part I: Language, development and evolution 2. Thought before language: the expression of motion events prior to the impact of a conventional language model Susan Goldin-Meadow and Ming-Yu Zheng 3. The prerequisites for language acquisition: evidence from cases of anomalous language development Jill Boucher 4. Some thoughts about the evolution of lads, with special reference to Tom and Sam Juan-Carlos Gomez 5. Thinking in language? Evolution and a modularist possibility Peter Carruthers Part II: Language, reasoning and concepts Introduction Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher 6. Aphasic language, aphasic thought: an investigation of propositional thinking in an a-propositional aphasic Rosemary Varley 7. Representing representations Gabriel Segal 8. Magic words: how language augments human computation Andy Clark 9. The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson 10. Convention-based semantics and the development of language Stephen Laurence Part III: Language and conscious reasoning Introduction Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher 11. Language, thought, and the language of thought: Aunty's own argument revisited Martin Davies 12. Natural language and virtual belief Keith Frankish 13. The meta-intentional nature of executive functions and theory of mind Josef Perner 14. Reflections on language and mind Daniel Dennett.