The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

15. Language: Minds Speak

  1. The Hidden Metaphysics of Language
  2. Spoken Language
  3. A Tool to Shape Minds
  4. Human Language And Animal Language
  5. Language Changes Minds
  6. Communication and Ecology
  7. Anomalies of Language
  8. Generative Grammar
  9. Phrase Structure
  10. Transformational Grammar
  11. Universal Grammar
  12. Wedding Biology and Linguistics
  13. Languages, Not Only Language
  14. The Language Instinct
  15. Case-based Grammars
  16. Conceptual Dependency
  17. Semantics
  18. The Math of Grammars
  19. Natural Semantics
  20. Cognitive Grammar
  21. Mental Spaces
  22. Cognitive Linguistics
  23. Chomsky Revisited
  24. Discourse Analysis
  25. Language as a By-product
  26. The Language of Gestures
  27. Adaptive Grammar

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Allen, James: NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (Benjamin Cummings, 1995)

Bach, Emmon: CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS (Reidel, 1988)

Baker, Mark: THE ATOMS OF LANGUAGE: THE MIND'S HIDDEN RULES OF GRAMMAR (Basic Books, 2001)

Bar-Hillel, Yehoshuas: LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (Addison Wesley, 1964)

Bates, Elizabeth: THE EMERGENCE OF SYMBOLS (Academic Press, 1979)

Brown, Roger: A FIRST LANGUAGE (Harvard Univ Press, 1973)

Bresnan, Joan: MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS (MIT Press, 1982)

Chierchia, Gennaro: MEANING AND GRAMMAR (MIT, 1990)

Chierchia, Gennaro: DYNAMICS OF MEANING (Univ of Chicago Press, 1995)

Chomsky, Noam: SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES (Mouton, 1957)

Chomsky, Noam: ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX (MIT Press, 1965)

Chomsky, Noam: REFLECTIONS ON LANGUAGE (Pantheon, 1975)

Chomsky, Noam: THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF LINGUISTIC THEORY (University of Chicago Press, 1975)

Chomsky, Noam: RULES AND REPRESENTATIONS (Columbia Univ Press, 1980)

Chomsky, Noam: LECTURES ON GOVERNMENT AND BINDING (MIT Press, 1981)

Chomsky, Noam: KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE (Greenwood, 1986)

Devlin, Keith: GOODBYE DESCARTES (John Wiley, 1997)

Dowty, David: WORD MEANING AND MONTAGUE GRAMMAR (Reidel, 1979)

Dowty, David: INTRODUCTION TO MONTAGUE SEMANTICS (Reidel, 1981)

Fauconnier, Gilles: MENTAL SPACES (MIT Press, 1994)

Fauconnier, Gilles & Eve Sweetser: SPACES, WORLDS, AND GRAMMAR (Univ of Chicago Press, 1996)

Gazdar, Gerald: GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR (MIT Press, 1985)

Goddard, Cliff & Wierzbicka, Anna: SEMANTIC AND LEXICAL UNIVERSALS (Benjamins, 1994)

Jackendoff, Ray: SEMANTICS AND COGNITION (MIT Press, 1983)

Jackendoff, Ray: SEMANTIC STRUCTURES (MIT Press, 1990)

Jackendoff, Ray: LANGUAGES OF THE MIND (MIT Press, 1992)

Katz, Jerrold: AN INTEGRATED THEORY OF LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIONS (MIT Press, 1964)

Katz, Jerrold: SEMANTIC THEORY (Harper & Row, 1972)

Katz, Jerrold: THE METAPHYSICS OF MEANING (MIT Press, 1990)

Kendon, Adam: NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION, INTERACTION, AND GESTURE (Cambridge Univ Press, 1981)

Korzybski, Alfred: SCIENCE AND SANITY - AN INTRODUCTION TO NON-ARISTOTELIAN SYSTEMS AND GENERAL SEMANTICS (1933)

Lakoff, George: PHILOSOPHY IN THE FLESH (Basic, 1998)

Lehnert, Wendy: STRATEGIES FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE LANGUAGE (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1982)

Langacker, Ronald: FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE GRAMMAR (Stanford Univ Press, 1986)

Lenneberg, Eric: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE (Wiley, 1967)

LePore, Ernest: NEW DIRECTIONS IN SEMANTICS (Academic Press, 1987)

Loritz, Donald: HOW THE BRAIN EVOLVED LANGUAGE (Oxford Univ Press, 1999)

Lycan, William: LOGICAL FORM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE (MIT Press, 1984)

McNeill, David: HAND AND MIND (Univ of Chicago Press, 1992)

Montague, Richard: FORMAL PHILOSOPHY (Yale University Press, 1974)

Nelson, Katherine: LANGUAGE IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Pinker, Steven: THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT (William Morrow, 1994)

Pinker, Steven: HOW THE MIND WORKS  (Norton, 1997)

Sapir, Edward: LANGUAGE (1921)

Schank, Roger: CONCEPTUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING (North Holland, 1975)

Van Benthem, Johan: A MANUAL OF INTENSIONAL LOGIC (Univ Of Chicago Press, 1988)

Van Benthem, Johan: LANGUAGE IN ACTION (MIT Press, 1995)

Vygotsky, Lev: THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE (MIT Press, 1934)

Whorf, Benjamin Lee: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND REALITY (MIT Press, 1956)

Wierzbicka, Anna: SEMANTICS, CULTURE, AND COGNITION (Oxford University Press, 1992)

Wierzbicka, Anna: THE SEMANTICS OF GRAMMAR (Benjamins, 1988)

Wierzbicka, Anna: SEMANTIC PRIMITIVES (1972)