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An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Ray Jackendoff's Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a breakthrough in developing an integrated theory of human cognition. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of cognitive scientists, including linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Jackendoff argues that linguistics has become isolated from the other cognitive sciences at least partly because of the syntax-based architecture assumed by mainstream generative grammar. He proposes an alternative parallel architecture for the language faculty that permits a greater internal integration of the components of language and connects far more naturally to such larger issues in cognitive neuroscience as language processing, the connection of language to vision, and the evolution of language.Extending this approach beyond the language capacity, Jackendoff proposes sharper criteria for a satisfactory theory of consciousness, examines the structure of complex everyday actions, and investigates the concepts involved in an individual's grasp of society and culture. Each of these domains is used to reflect back on the question of what is unique about human language and what follows from more general properties of the mind.Language, Consciousness, Culture extends Jackendoff's pioneering theory of conceptual semantics to two of the most important domains of human thought: social cognition and theory of mind. Jackendoff's formal framework allows him to draw new connections among a large variety of literatures and to uncover new distinctions and generalizations not previously recognized. The breadth of the approach will foster cross-disciplinary conversation; the vision is to develop a richer understanding of human nature.… (mais)
A serious inquiry that reformulates linguistic theory by eliminating syntactocentrism and the lexicon/grammar distinction. He aims to make it more compatible with other cognitive sciences and areas far beyond -- all the way to sociology. Includes lots of formal semantic analysis of English verbs and beyond-linguistics concepts.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Preface
This book grew out of a most gracious invitation by the Institut Jean Nicod to present the Jean Nicod Lectures in Cognitive Philosophy in Paris in the spring of 2003. Given the broadly interdisciplinary nature of the Institut, I thought it would be fun to o¤er a fairly wide-ranging series of lectures in a somewhat speculative vein.
Chapter 1: Mental Structure
This book is concerned with exploring human nature in terms of the mental structures that play a role in constituting human experience and human behavior. In order to explain what I mean by ‘‘mental structure,’’ it is useful to situate the term within the more general enterprise of cognitive neuroscience.
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I believe it has been useful to attempt a fairly synoptic view of the concepts involved in social cognition. Much of the recent work on social cognition within cognitive science has focused on such areas as affect recognition, false belief tasks, rational choice, heuristics, cheater detection, morality, and religion, without much analysis of the larger cognitive context in which these phenomena reside. Here I have tried to proceed from the big picture inward; the connections to these more specialized domains have fallen out here and there, more or less casually. I do not mean thereby to minimize the importance of these domains. Rather, I hope that the connections built here are fruitful in attempting to unify the inquiry, and that researchers in these domains—along with many other domains—will come to consider the whole enterprise a joint task.
An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Ray Jackendoff's Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a breakthrough in developing an integrated theory of human cognition. It will be of interest to a broad spectrum of cognitive scientists, including linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Jackendoff argues that linguistics has become isolated from the other cognitive sciences at least partly because of the syntax-based architecture assumed by mainstream generative grammar. He proposes an alternative parallel architecture for the language faculty that permits a greater internal integration of the components of language and connects far more naturally to such larger issues in cognitive neuroscience as language processing, the connection of language to vision, and the evolution of language.Extending this approach beyond the language capacity, Jackendoff proposes sharper criteria for a satisfactory theory of consciousness, examines the structure of complex everyday actions, and investigates the concepts involved in an individual's grasp of society and culture. Each of these domains is used to reflect back on the question of what is unique about human language and what follows from more general properties of the mind.Language, Consciousness, Culture extends Jackendoff's pioneering theory of conceptual semantics to two of the most important domains of human thought: social cognition and theory of mind. Jackendoff's formal framework allows him to draw new connections among a large variety of literatures and to uncover new distinctions and generalizations not previously recognized. The breadth of the approach will foster cross-disciplinary conversation; the vision is to develop a richer understanding of human nature.