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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Willis F Overton; David Stuart Palermo |
| ISBN: | 0805812113 9780805812114 |
| OCLC Number: | 30070109 |
| Description: | xiii, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Contests of meaning: the computational and the embodied mind. --2. The communal creation of meaning.--3. What is a conceptual system?--4. Design for a theory of meaning.--5. A developmental analysis of cognitive semantics: what is the role of metaphor in the construction of knowledge and reasoning?--6. Word meanings and what it takes to learn them: reflections on the Piaget-Chomsky debate.--7. The foundations of logic and the foundations of cognition.--8. Affective dimensions of meaning.--9. From acting to understanding: the comparative development of meaning.--10. meaning and expression.--11. Constructivist explanations for language acquisition may be insufficient: the case for language- specific principles.--12. Plot, plight, and dramatism: interpret- ation at three ages.--13. Semantic naturalism: the problem of meaning and naturalistic psychology. |
| Series Title: | Jean Piaget Symposium series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Willis F. Overton, David S. Palermo. |
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