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This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next era in the history of psychology: It promises to give psychologists a new appreciation of what this variety of linguistics can offer their study of language and communication. In addition, it provides cognitive-functional linguists new models for presenting their work to audiences outside the boundaries of traditional linguistics. Thus, it serves as an excellent text for courses in psycholinguistics, and appeal to students and researchers in cognitive science and functional linguistics.
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The New Psychology of Language : Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure
author
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Tomasello, Michael.
publisher
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
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0805825762
print isbn13
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9780805825763
ebook isbn13
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9780585115191
language
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English
subject
Psycholinguistics.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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P37.N44 1998eb
ddc
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401/.9
subject
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Psycholinguistics.
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The New Psychology of Language
Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure
Edited by Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS 1998 Mahwah, New Jersey London
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Copyright 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430
Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The new psychology of language: cognitive and functional approaches to language structure/edited by Michael Tomasello. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-2576-2 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-8058-2577-0 (pbk.: alk. paper). 1. Psycholinguistics. I. Tomasello, Michael. P37.N44 1998 401'.9 dc21 98-11415 CIP
Books published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates are printed on acid-free paper, and their bindings are chosen for strength and durability.
Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure
Michael Tomasello
vii
1 Conceptualization, Symbolization, and Grammar
Ronald W. Langacker
1
2 The Functional Approach to Grammar
T. Givn
41
3 The Structure of Events and the Structure of Language
William Croft
67
4 Language and the Flow of Thought
Wallace Chafe
93
5 The Semantics of English Causative Constructions in a Universal-Typological Perspective
Anna Wierzbicka
113
6 Emergent Grammar
Paul J. Hopper
155
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7 Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories
John R. Taylor
177
8 Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language
Adele E. Goldberg
203
9 The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
221
10 Mental Spaces, Language Modalities, and Conceptual Integration
Gilles Fauconnier
251
Author Index
281
Subject Index
287
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Introduction: A Cognitive-Functional Perspective on Language Structure
Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany
The attitude of psychologists toward linguistics has been problematic from the beginning. The titular founder of scientific psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, divided psychological phenomena into two types: those that could be measured and quantified in the laboratory (e.g., perceptual discriminations, behavioral reactions, etc.) and those that were culturally constituted and so best studied in their natural sociohistorical contexts. Wundt (1900-1909) called the study of these culturally constituted phenomena Vlkerpsychologie, and he began his treatment of the subject with the most interesting of all cultural artifacts, language. Wundt's colleagues and immediate successors, however, were especially intrigued by the new laboratory methods, and so "The attitude favored by most of [psychology's] founding fathers was one of simple neglect. Other mental processes were given higher priority and language was left to the professional linguists" (Miller, 1990, p. 9). The situation did not improve in the 20th century as the behaviorists continued to ignore language or else applied to it their special brand of nothing buttery (language is nothing but behavior; e.g., Skinner, 1957) to notoriously bad effect (Chomsky, 1959).
And so it was with Chomsky (1957, 1959) that the modern era began. As is well known, Chomskian linguistics was a central part of the Cognitive Revolution of the 1960s, and the fields of psycholinguistics, as first studied by George Miller and colleagues, and of developmental psycholinguistics, as first studied by Roger Brown and colleagues, were essentially founded on the Chomskian paradigm. But the honeymoon was over quickly as
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