From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of
modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much
use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional
and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally
oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language
structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to
cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization,
meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse
context, social interaction, and communicative goals. The account
of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm
should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings
(not formal devices) comprehend, produce, and acquire natural
languages.
The current volume brings together 10 of the most important
linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is
often not easily available to those outside the field. In original
contributions, each of these scholars focuses on an important
aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to
readers who are not professional linguists. Of special importance
to all of the contributions are the cognitive and social
interactional processes that constitute human linguistic
communication. The book is of special interest to psychologists,
cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and developmental
psycholinguists, in addition to linguists taking a more
psychological approach to language.
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