To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even individuals? Of crucial importance in the attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of human cognition, these remain amongst the most difficult of questions in the cognitive sciences. This volume brings ...
This text is about a theory of language that combines two observations: (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to by accounted for, simultaneously and coherently, ...
"International Litigation in Intellectual Property and Information Technology" - Editor: Arnaud Nuyts, Co-Editors: Nikitas Hatzimihail, Katarzyna Szychowska. The pressure to develop an intellectual property litigation framework at a supranational level is enormous. The tensions among technological change, the forces of an ever-more global market, ...
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains a major puzzle in language research. This title investigates main types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. By adopting a systematic functional orientation, the book explains a whole range of peculiarities of epistemic expression forms and offers a ...
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