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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2010, 2010
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 344 p., [8] p. of plates ill. (some col.) |
| ISBN: | 9780199776924 |