This volume offers novel views on the precise relation between reference to an object by means of a linguistic expression and our mental representation of that
One: Nuts and Bolts.- 1. Mental Representation.- Symbolism: The Classical Paradigm.- Cracks in the Symbolic Paradigm.- Connectionism: The Other Paradigm.- Metho
This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, however, a crit
Presents an historical overview of the way that ideas about language and thinking have developed from the early days of cognitive psychology to the present. Emp
Main description: The author argues for a new, linguistically grounded typology of speech and thought representation in English from a cognitive-linguistic pers