Research Catalog

Title

Language, feeling, and the brain : the evocative vector / Dan Shanahan.

Author

Shanahan, Daniel.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2007], ©2007.

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Description

xi, 248 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Language, Feeling, and the Brain attempts to apply the fruits of new research in emotion to our understanding of language itself. Building on Karl Pribram's integrated model of emotions and motivations, the book takes an eclectic approach to explaining how emotions contribute to the nature of language, drawing on research done in neuropsychology, philosophy, cognitive linguistics, anthropology, and related fields, its aim is to construct a propositional model for how the emotions may have contributed to the emergence of symbolic formation, most especially in the forms of gesture and speech, and how identifying that emotional influence sheds new light on everything we have had to say about language itself, from lexis and grammar to culture and literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Language and languages
• Language and languages > Origin
• Emotions
• Culture
• Myth

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and indexes.

Contents

1. Two theories of the emergence of language -- 2. Affect, emotions, and feeling -- 3. Embodied language -- 4. Language, catharsis, and action -- 5. Symbol, syntax, and meaning -- 6. Apprehending through gesture -- 7. On the emotional origins of language -- 8. Metaphor -- 9. Narrative and myth -- 10. Myth and culture -- 11. Language, literature, and culture -- Conclusion : language embodied.

ISBN

• 0765803542 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780765803542 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006044497

OCLC

• ocm64771137
• 64771137
• SCSB-5350771

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries