Communication and Affect

Language and Thought

Patricia Pliner, Lester Krames, Thomas Alloway

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780125582506
• eBook ISBN: 9781483270340
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

Communication and Affect: Language and Thought is a collection of papers presented at the second symposium on Communication and Affect held at Erindale College, University of Toronto, in March 1972. This volume contains a series of papers dealing with neobehavioristic approach to language and thought. The individual papers represent a broad spectrum of topics that are linked by their common neobehavioristic methodology and by their subject matter dealing with human verbal and symbolic behavior. Topics discussed in the compendium include the linguistic concept of marked and unmarked attributes and its relation to cognitive structure and affect; a comparison of the pictorial and verbal modes of representing information; the evolution of human cognition; empirical and theoretical approaches to the question of localization of language functions in the human brain; and the nature of implicit communications in experimental situations. Psychologists, behavioral scientists, linguists, and researchers in the field of human communication will find the book invaluable.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Communiation and Affect: Language and Thought
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. What Is Meant by Knowing a Language?
• Chapter 2. Cognitive Structure and Affect in Language
• Chapter 3. Some Modes of Representation
• Chapter 4. A "Levels of Analysis" View of Memory
• Chapter 5. Symboling and Semantic Conditioning: Anthropogeny
• Chapter 6. Language and the Cerebral Hemispheres: Reaction-Time Studies and Their Implications for Models of Cerebral Dominance
• Chapter 7. Mother-Infant Dyad: The Cradle of Meaning
• Chapter 8. Communication by the Total Experimental Situation: Why It Is Important, How It Is Evaluated, and Its Significance for the Ecological Validity of Findings
• Author Index
• Subject Index