Overview
- Interrogates the current climate of opinions on the relationship between language, biology and cognition
- Advances the idea that linguistic structures are themselves cognitive structures
- Argues that biological relations are ultimately irrelevant to the logical texture of linguistic cognition
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Prakash Mondal is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language, Biology and Cognition
Book Subtitle: A Critical Perspective
Authors: Prakash Mondal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23715-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23714-1Published: 29 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23717-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23715-8Published: 17 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 241
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Biology, Biological Psychology, Language Acquisition and Development