Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental StructureMIT Press, 2009 M01 23 - 432 pages 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. |
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... syntactic positions such as subject and object. Chapter 7 extends the machinery to a¤ective/evaluative predicates such as interesting and fascinated. Here again, one focus is the distinction between ostensibly objective evaluations ...
... syntactic patterns associated with verbs that express attitudes are partly a consequence of the verbs' semantics. The chapter also develops a formal characterization of Dennett's notion of the ''intentional stance'' and its relation to ...
... syntactic trees, are intended as representations of what is in the mind. However, I would maintain that what is in the mind is best not thought of as a representation or a symbol of anything. The reason is that the words ...
Essays on Mental Structure Ray S. Jackendoff. that ''perceives'' syntactic structures is the faculties of mind that process and store syntactic structures, and in fact the term ''perceive'' is itself suspect in this context. If we are to ...
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