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Overview
What is the place of language in human cognition? Do we sometimes think in natural language? Or is language for purposes of interpersonal communication only? Although these questions have been much debated in the past, in recent decades they have almost dropped from sight among those interested in the cognitive sciences. Language and Thought is intended to persuade such people to think again. It brings together essays by a distinguished interdisciplinary team of philosophers and psychologists, who discuss various ways in which language may be implicated in human cognition.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521637589
- ISBN-10: 0521637589
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: August 1998
- Dimensions: 8.99 x 6.05 x 0.86 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.22 pounds
- Page Count: 340
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