Thought-based linguistics : how languages turn thoughts into sounds / Wallace Chafe.

Call Number	415.01/835
Author	Chafe, Wallace L., author.
Title	Thought-based linguistics : how languages turn thoughts into sounds / Wallace Chafe.
Physical Description	1 online resource (ix, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).
Contents	Machine generated contents note: Prologue; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Background; 2. Ground rules; Part II. Thoughts and their Properties: 3. The priority of thoughts; 4. The path from a thought to a sound; 5. How thoughts are structured; 6. How thoughts are experienced; 7. How thoughts are shared; 8. How thoughts flow through time; Part III. Verbalization Illustrated: 9. From a thought to a sound in English; 10. From a thought to a sound in a polysynthetic language; Part IV. Related Issues: 11. The translation paradox; 12. Repeated verbalizations of the same thought; 13. Rethinking Whorf; 14. Lessons from literature; Part V. Common Ways of Orienting Thoughts: 15. Small numbers and subitizing; 16. Thoughts and gender; 17. Time, tense, memory, and imagination; 18. Relating ideas to reality; Part VI. The Emotional Component of Thoughts: 19. Emotional involvement in a conversation; 20. The feeling of nonseriousness; 21. How language can be beautiful; Epilogue; Index.
Summary	The extent to which language is inseparable from thought has long been a major subject of debate across linguistics, psychology, philosophy and other disciplines. In this study, Wallace Chafe presents a thought-based theory of language that goes beyond traditional views that semantics, syntax, and sounds are sufficient to account for language design. Language begins with thoughts in the mind of a speaker and ends by affecting thoughts in the mind of a listener. This obvious observation is seldom incorporated in descriptions of language design for two major reasons. First, the role of thought is usually usurped by semantics. But semantic structures are imposed on thought by languages and differ from one language to another. Second, thought does not lend itself to familiar methods of linguistic analysis. Chafe suggests ways of describing thoughts, traces the path languages follow from thoughts to sounds, and explores ways in which thoughts are oriented in time, memory, imagination, reality, and emotions.
Subject	COGNITIVE GRAMMAR. AUDITORY PERCEPTION. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Psychlinguistics.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108367493

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Summary	The extent to which language is inseparable from thought has long been a major subject of debate across linguistics, psychology, philosophy and other disciplines. In this study, Wallace Chafe presents a thought-based theory of language that goes beyond traditional views that semantics, syntax, and sounds are sufficient to account for language design. Language begins with thoughts in the mind of a speaker and ends by affecting thoughts in the mind of a listener. This obvious observation is seldom incorporated in descriptions of language design for two major reasons. First, the role of thought is usually usurped by semantics. But semantic structures are imposed on thought by languages and differ from one language to another. Second, thought does not lend itself to familiar methods of linguistic analysis. Chafe suggests ways of describing thoughts, traces the path languages follow from thoughts to sounds, and explores ways in which thoughts are oriented in time, memory, imagination, reality, and emotions.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).
Contents	Machine generated contents note: Prologue; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Background; 2. Ground rules; Part II. Thoughts and their Properties: 3. The priority of thoughts; 4. The path from a thought to a sound; 5. How thoughts are structured; 6. How thoughts are experienced; 7. How thoughts are shared; 8. How thoughts flow through time; Part III. Verbalization Illustrated: 9. From a thought to a sound in English; 10. From a thought to a sound in a polysynthetic language; Part IV. Related Issues: 11. The translation paradox; 12. Repeated verbalizations of the same thought; 13. Rethinking Whorf; 14. Lessons from literature; Part V. Common Ways of Orienting Thoughts: 15. Small numbers and subitizing; 16. Thoughts and gender; 17. Time, tense, memory, and imagination; 18. Relating ideas to reality; Part VI. The Emotional Component of Thoughts: 19. Emotional involvement in a conversation; 20. The feeling of nonseriousness; 21. How language can be beautiful; Epilogue; Index.
Subject	COGNITIVE GRAMMAR. AUDITORY PERCEPTION. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Psychlinguistics.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108367493