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The evolutionary psychology of the human pointing gesture

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
The human pointing gesture is a species‐unique and species‐universal form of communication that depends on humans' especially powerful forms of cooperative cognition and motivation. I have previously hypothesized that the pointing gesture evolved as a behavioral tool empowering individuals to better coordinate their interdependent collaborative ...
Michael Tomasello
wiley   +1 more source

An ERP study on the late stage of Chinese metaphor processing

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Psycholinguistic models of metaphor processing remain a subject of debate. A prime-probe design using Chinese materials with a specific time span (300 ms) was applied to test the mechanisms of metaphor processing.
Xinyi Xu, Jingting Zhang, Jingting Zhang, Yuling Wang, Minghu Jiang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Developmental Psycholinguistic Approach to Second Language Teaching

, 1991
This volume systematically applies the accumulated knowledge of developmental psycholinguistics to the field of language instruction. The first part of the book draws together a wide range of theoretical material from developmental psycholinguistics ...
TAESCHNER, Traute
core  

Advocacy and the function of folk psychology

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Why do we care about getting mental state attributions right? A common answer is that folk psychology is a proto‐scientific theory that allows us to predict and explain the behavior of physical systems. I argue that this position is inconsistent with one of the central practices in which attribution of desire occurs: to advocate for our interests and ...
Henry Schiller
wiley   +1 more source

Guidance without ends

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Attentional guidance plays two crucial roles in temporally extended agency. First, guidance stabilizes attention onto our tasks—and tunes out distractions—for extended periods of time. Second, guidance makes attention telic/atelic. Guidance imposes completion conditions on telic attention (e.g., searching for your keys) but not atelic attention (e.g ...
Zachary C. Irving
wiley   +1 more source

Deep dialogism, inner voices, and mental health

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
The idea that cognition involves dialogic interchange between mutually influencing “voices” has long featured in psychology and philosophy. While dialogic structure is most explicit in inner speech, some authors have argued that other types of mental activity can be (or always are) dialogic. We introduce two dimensions of dialogism, strength and depth,
Sofiia Rappe, Sam Wilkinson
wiley   +1 more source

Psycholinguistic insights into interaction patterns for meaning acquisition in BIPA learning at the university level

Tarbiya : Journal of Education in Muslim Society
This study investigates psycholinguistic perspectives on interaction patterns that facilitate meaning acquisition in BIPA (Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing/Indonesian for Speakers of Other Languages) learning at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta ...
Didah Nurhamidah, Zainal Rafli, Fathiaty Murtadho, Muhammad Rizal Mahfuzo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
I discuss the evolution of ostensive behaviours (behaviours that display the communicative intent to influence others through the perception of signals and actions addressed to them). Ostensive communication evolved out of evolutionary adaptations to the challenges and opportunities created by the evolutionary scenario of the meeting of ...
Juan Carlos Gómez
wiley   +1 more source

Teleosemantics for neural word embeddings

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
This paper applies a consumer‐based teleosemantic framework to give a detailed analysis of a particular algorithm for generating word embeddings. In the process, it addresses several of the challenges facing teleosemantic approaches to artificial neural networks.
Fintan Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

On the Mechanisms of Grammatical Implementation of the Euphemistic Meaning

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
The relevance of the work has been determined by the necessity to study the features of derivative transformations that do not correspond to the ritually expected grammatical mechanisms (grammar mistakes (inconsistency)) of the euphemism explication in ...
Olga S. Zubkova, Svetlana A. Logvina
doaj   +1 more source