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Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Develops a unified account of linguistic intensionality by integrating its different aspects or dimensions in the matrix of emotive expressions

  • Reformulates the very notion of what the cognitive architecture looks like by entangling the formal properties of emotion with those of language

  • Gives a symbolic grist to the mill of cognition by drawing upon insights from linguistics, philosophy of mind, psychology, biology and computer science

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Emotive Intensionality, Meaning and Grammar

    • Prakash Mondal
    Pages 71-110
  3. Conclusion

    • Prakash Mondal
    Pages 151-178
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 179-182

About this book

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion. The author presents a compelling case for the view that there exist, contrary to popular belief, logical universals at the intersection of language and emotive content. This book shows that emotive structures in the mind that are widely assumed to be not only subjectively or socio-culturally variable but also irrelevant to a general theory of cognition offer an unusually suitable ground for a formal theory of emotive representations, allowing for surprising logical and cognitive consequences for a theory of cognition. Challenging mainstream assumptions in cognitive science and in linguistics, this book will appeal to linguists, philosophers of the mind, linguistic anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists of all persuasions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Medak, Telangana, India

    Prakash Mondal

About the author

Prakash Mondal is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is the author of Language, Mind and Computation (2014), Natural Language and Possible Minds (2016) and Language, Biology and Cognition (completed).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion

  • Authors: Prakash Mondal

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33690-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33689-3Published: 27 September 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81574-9Published: 27 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33690-9Published: 13 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 182

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Theoretical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Semantics

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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