Words and the mind : how words capture human experience / [electronic resource]
by Malt, Barbara C; Wolff, Phillip M.
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (viii, 344 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.).ISBN: 9780199776924 (ebook) :.Subject(s): PsycholinguisticsOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. Here, the authors present evidence on topics as diverse as spatial relations, events, emotion terms, motion events, objects, body-part terms, and more.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. Here, the authors present evidence on topics as diverse as spatial relations, events, emotion terms, motion events, objects, body-part terms, and more.
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