Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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.
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12 Repeated Verbalizations of the Same Thought13 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; References; Index.
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Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.
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1108421172
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Auditory perception.
Cognitive grammar.
Language acquisition.
Psychlinguistics.
Auditory perception.
Cognitive grammar.
Language acquisition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.