Language in the Brain

By Helmut Schnelle

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521739713
• ISBN13: 9780521739719
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"