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The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this third volume focuses on the interface between language and cognition. Language use is impossible without the mobilization of a large variety of cognitive processes, each serving a different purpose. During the last half century cognitive approaches to language have been particularly successful, and the broad spectrum of contributions to this volume testify to this success. As cognitive approaches to language are by definition a subset of the larger enterprise of cognitive science, a contribution on this general topic sets the stage. This is joined by a chapter on cognitive grammar, a theoretical study of the architecture of human language that is deeply inspired by general cognitive principles. A chapter on experimentation offers a crash-course on basic issues of experimental design and on the rationale behind statistical testing in general and the most important statistical tests in particular, offering a methodological toolkit for understanding many of the other contributions. Different chapters cover a broad range of topics: language acquisition, psycholinguistics, specialized topics within the latter field (e.g. the bilingual mental lexicon, categorization), and aspects of language awareness. Some chapters home in on what have become indispensible perspectives on the cognitive underpinnings of language: the way language is represented and processed in the human brain and simulation studies. The ever-growing success of the latter type of studies is exemplified, for instance, by the highly flourishing connectionist tradition and the more general paradigm of artificial intelligence, each of which is dealt with in a separate contribution.



Table of Contents
Preface to the series
xi - xvi
Perspectives on language and cognition: From empiricism to rationalism and back again
Dominiek Sandra
1 - 15
Artificial intelligence
Steven Gillis, Walter Daelemans and Koenraad De Smedt
16 - 40
Categorization
Eleanor Rosch
41 - 52
Cerebral division of labour in verbal communication
Michel Paradis
53 - 77
Cognitive grammar
Ronald W. Langacker
78 - 85
Cognitive science
Seana Coulson and Teenie Matlock
86 - 109
Comprehension vs. production
J. Cooper Cutting
110 - 125
Connectionism
Ton Weijters and Antal van den Bosch
126 - 134
Consciousness and language
Wallace Chafe
135 - 145
Developmental psychology
Susan M. Ervin-Tripp
146 - 156
Experimentation
Dominiek Sandra
157 - 200
Language acquisition
Steven Gillis and Dorit Ravid
201 - 249
Metalinguistic awareness
Elizabeth Mertz and Jonathan Yovel
250 - 271
Perception and language
Roger Lindsay
272 - 287
Psycholinguistics
Dominiek Sandra
288 - 368
The multilingual lexicon
Ton Dijkstra
369 - 388
Index