Thought-based linguistics : how languages turn thoughts into sounds /
"The extent to which language is inseparable from thought has long been a major subject of debate across linguistics, psychology, philosophy and other disciplines. In this study, Wallace Chafe presents a thought-based theory of language that goes beyond traditional views that semantics, syntax,...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Preliminaries
- Background
- Ground rules
- Part II. Thoughts and their properties
- The priority of thoughts
- The path from a thought to a sound
- How thoughts are structured
- How thoughts are experienced
- How thoughts are shared
- How thoughts flow through time
- Part III. Verbalization illustrated
- From a thought to a sound in English
- From a thought to a sound in a polysynthetic language
- Part IV. Related issues
- The translation paradox
- Repeated verbalizations of the same thought
- Rethinking whorf
- Lessons from literature
- Part V. Common ways of orienting thoughts
- Small numbers and subitizing
- Thoughts and gender
- Time, tense, memory, and imagination
- Relating ideas to reality
- Part VI. The emotional component of thoughts
- Emotional involvement in a conversation
- The feeling of nonseriousness
- How language can be beautiful.
