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Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis

From Non-Realist Linguistics to a Realistic Language Science

by Alexander Kravchenko (Author)
©2008 Monographs 306 Pages

Summary

This book is an attempt to re-evaluate some basic assumptions about language, communication, and cognition in the light of the new epistemology of autopoiesis as the theory of the living. Starting with a critique of common myths about language and communication, the author goes on to argue for a new understanding of language and cognition as functional adaptive activities in a consensual domain of interactions. He shows that such understanding is, in fact, what marks a variety of theoretical and empirical frameworks in contemporary non-Cartesian cognitive science; thus, cognitive science is in the process of working out new epistemological foundations for the study of language and cognition. In Part Two, the traditional concept of grammar is reassessed from the vantage point of autopoietic epistemology, and an analysis of specific grammatical phenomena in English and Russian is undertaken, revealing common cognitive mechanisms at work in linguistic categories.

Details

Pages
306
Publication Year
2008
ISBN (PDF)
9783653012729
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631566473
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-01272-9
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (April)
Keywords
Kognitive Linguistik English language Russioan language Biocognitive philosophy of language Maturana, Humberto
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. 306 pp., num. fig. and tables

Biographical notes

Alexander Kravchenko (Author)

The Author: Alexander Kravchenko is Chair of the English Department at Baikal National University of Economics and Law (BNUEL), Russia. His research interests include the biology of language and cognition, semiotics, cognitive grammar, and applied cognitive linguistics (EFL/TESOL).

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