Language in the Brain

Linguistics, neurocognition, and phenomenological psychology are fundamentally different fields of research. Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. Consequently the first part of the book is a systematic introduction to the function of the form and meaning-organising brain component - with the essential core elements being perceptions, actions, attention, emotion and feeling. Their descriptions provide foundations for experiences based on semantics and pragmatics. The second part is addressed to non-linguists and presents the structural foundations of currently established linguistic frameworks. This book should be serious reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of language, in which evolution, functional organisation and hierarchies are explained by reference to brain architecture and dynamics.

Author: Helmut Schnelle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/20/2010
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780521739719
ISBN10: 0521739713
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
- Medical | Neuroscience