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Language in the Brain

Helmut Schnelle author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:20th May '10

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A neurocognitive analysis of the form, use and meaning of language, bridging the gap between linguistic and neuroscientific studies.

Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. For academic researchers and graduate students in the field of neurolinguistics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology.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.

"The book is informative [and] ambitious." Andrew Kertesz, The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

ISBN: 9780521515498

Dimensions: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm

Weight: 520g

244 pages