Una fascinante aproximación al funcionamiento del bilingüismo en el cerebro humano y cómo este adquiere y procesa el lenguaje. Todos estamos interesados en el lenguaje y nos hemos preguntado alguna v

Este ensayo de propuestas audaces y de titubeos epistemólogicos inevitables, interesará a linguistas, filósofos y biólogos por igual. El reto es tratar la fisiología neuronal, es decir, el funcionamiento coordinado de cara a la emision y recepcion de mensajes verbales.

Abrir nuestra mirada inquisidora a la más idiosincrásica de las enfermedades dramáticas sin desdeñar ninguno de los elementos que pudieran contribuir a iluminarla –el modelo de la psiquiatría y en pa

Muchas terapias y técnicas de comunicación buscan cambiar o modificar comportamientos, estados internos, personalidades y demás. La PNL ofrece un modelo diseñado para enriquecer el mundo interno de la persona, ofreciendo más alternativas de acción, respetando sus creencias y valores. Ampliar el mundo de una persona es mucho más que cambiarla: es mantener lo que funciona correctamente y sumarles recursos sustentados por criterios o puntos de referencia más amplios. 

El lenguaje y la comunicación humanos son aspectos esenciales de nuestra cultura, nuestros aprendizajes y nuestra afectividad, y forman parte de nuestro ciclo vital desde el nacimiento. Por ello, todo lo que nos permita conocerlos mejor, redundara en nuestra calidad de vida. Es importante detectar a cualquier edad posibles carencias o deficits de este proceso para que la sociedad, y en especial los contextos familiar y escolar, sepan como afrontar dichas carencias. Desde los retrasos y los trastornos del lenguaje que aparecen en los primeros años de vida, hasta las hipoacusias de la tercera edad o los deficits del lenguaje asociados a demencias, existe un importante campo educativo y clinico en el que intervienen logopedas, psicopedagogos, profesores, psicologos clinicos y medicos de diferentes especialidades. Todos colaboran con un mismo objetivo: mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas y favorecer el aprendizaje y el proceso de comunicacion en su conjunto.

"El sueño de Martina" es un cuento que plantea la felicidad de todos los niños del mundo, sin distinción de razas o credos. Nunca se debe renunciar a un sueño si éste es noble y merece convertirse en realidad, por muy utopico e inalcanzable que nos parezca. Porque si crees en el, lo deseas de verdad y pones de tu parte todo lo que dependa de ti, muchas veces el sueño se convierte en realidad.En "El sueño de Martina" tambien se evidencia el papel que los abuelos desempeñan en la educacion de sus nietos. No se trata de una educacion cientifica y sistematicamente programada, responde mas bien a lecciones ocasionales impartidas con una pedagogia y didactica infalibles, porque estan basadas en el cariño y respeto mutuo entre abuelos y nietos.Por ultimo, "El sueño de Martina" puede utilizarse como recurso didactico en el area de lenguaje, ya que esta escrito en castellano e ingles, Ademas las intervenciones de cada personaje y del narrador se escriben con tintas de diferentes colores, al objeto de facilitar la lectura en grupo o su escenificacion.

How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Emile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900.

LANGUAGE, CONSCIOUSNESS, CULTURE: ESSAYS ON MENTAL STRUCTURE

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more complex. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff trace this development through the history of contemporary syntactic theory, showing how much it has been driven by theory-internal rather than empirical considerations. They develop an alternative that is responsive to linguistic, cognitive, computational, and biological concerns. At the core of this alternative is the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis: the most explanatory syntactic theory is one that imputes the minimum structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning. A consequence of this hypothesis is a far richer mapping between syntax and semantics than is generally assumed. Through concrete analyses of numerous grammatical phenomena, some well studied and some new, the authors demonstrate the empirical and conceptual superiority of the Simpler Syntax approach. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intellige

Over the past twenty-five years, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issues in syntax, semantics, and the relation of language to other cognitive domains. He steps back in this new book to survey the broader theoretical landscape in linguistics, in an attempt to identify some of the sources of the widely perceived malaise with respect to much current theorizing.Starting from the "Minimalist" necessity for interfaces of the grammar with sound, meaning, and the lexicon, Jackendoff examines many standard assumptions of generative grammar that in retrospect may be seen as the product of historical accident. He then develops alternatives more congenial to contemporary understanding of linguistic phenomena.The Architecture of the Language Faculty seeks to situate the language capacity in a more general theory of mental representations and to connect the theory of grammar with processing. To this end, Jackendoff works out an architecture that generates multiple co-constraining structures, and he embeds this proposal in a version of the modularity hypothesis called Representational Modularity.Jackendoff carefully articulates the nature of lexical insertion and the content of lexical entries, including idioms and productive affixes. The resulting organization of the grammar is compatible with many different technical realizations, which he shows can be instantiated in terms of a variety of current theoretical frameworks.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 28

AI can assist the linguist in doing research on the structure of language This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model can assist the Construction Grammarian and especially the Frame Semanticist

The lessons and practices here will shift a sense of chaos to one of clarity and a mindset of fear to one of hope Margaret Heffernan bestselling author of Wilful Blindness How often do you interrupt How often do people interrupt you Can you remember the last time someone listened to you all the way through your thinking In a time when communication is more challenging than ever and relationships need to be nurtured listening to one another could not be more important In her new book Nancy Kline bestselling author of Time To Think suggests that for us to radically improve our communication we should make the propmise I won t interrupt you This promise matters because when we interrupt each other we interrupt our thinking and that interrupts the quality of everything we do By making this promise to our colleagues and loved ones we can deepen our relationships increase our productivity and enjoy deeper richer conversations It may in fact be the most important promise we ever make Nancy has spent the last three decades researching independent thought and the barriers that prevent us from thinking for ourselves In this book she tells us the truth about the damage

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language structure in terms already familiar to psychologists, thus defining the next era in the scientific study of language.The Classic Edition volumes re-introduce some of the most important cognitive and functional linguists working in the field. They include a new introduction by Michael Tomasello in which he reviews what has changed since the volumes first published and highlights the fundamental insights of the original authors. The New Psychology of Language volumes are a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how cognitive and functional linguistics has become the thriving perspective on the scientific study of language that it is today.

This volume presents a synthesis of cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language acquistion, language processing, individual differences in linguistic knowledge, and on the role of multi-word chunks and low-level schemas in language production and comprehension. It highlights the tension between "linguists' grammars", which are strongly influenced by principles such as economy and elegance, and "speakers' grammars", which are often messy, less than fully general, and sometimes inconsistent, and argues that cognitive linguistics is an empirical science which combines study of real usage events and experiments which rigorously test specific hypotheses.

In Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages Sherman Wilcox suggests that rather than abstracting away from the material substance of language, linguists can discover the deep connections between signed and spoken languages by taking an embodied view.

This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts. Case studies come from English, Chinese, Danish, and other languages. Applications in language teaching and intercultural education are also covered, along with comparisons between NSM and other leading approaches to linguistic semantics. The book will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics at all levels, communication and translation scholars, and anyone interested in a systematic and non Anglocentric approach to meaning, culture and cognition.

The first four lectures revolve around field semantics - research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic study of how humans communicate about the world in terms of the meaning categories of the languages they speak. Together, the lectures present one of the first comprehensive introductions to either topic. A thread pervading the lectures involves the following questions: how much do languages vary in how they represent reality? To what extent does this variation reflect cultural differences? To what extent does it influence the nonverbal thinking of the speaker

These lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a conceptualist semantics, well motivated in its own terms, provides the basis for a symbolic view of grammar. Consisting in the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content, grammar is inherently meaningful, and basic grammatical notions have conceptual characterizations. An account is given of grammatical categories, markings, and constructions. A number of central topics are examined in detail, including subjects, possessives, locatives, voice, and impersonals.Detalles del producto