Words and the mind : how words capture human experience /

The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. Here, the authors present evidence on topics as diverse as spatial relations, events, emotion terms, motion events, objects,...

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Other Authors: Malt, Barbara C., Wolff, Phillip M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. Here, the authors present evidence on topics as diverse as spatial relations, events, emotion terms, motion events, objects, body-part terms, and more.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780199718641
0199718644
9780190295127
0190295120