出版社: Basic Books
副标题: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
出版年: 2012-10-30
页数: 312
定价: USD 27.99
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780465028290
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Whether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning--a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else's mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things--from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at V...
Whether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning--a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else's mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things--from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer's backhand to things that don't exist at all, like flying pigs. And when you talk, your listener fills in lots of details you didn't mention--the curliness of the dog's fur or the vast statuary on the grounds of the French palace. What's the trick behind this magic? How does meaning work? In "Louder than Words," cognitive scientist Benjamin Bergen draws together a decade's worth of research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience to offer a new theory of how our minds make meaning. When we hear words and sentences, Bergen contends, we engage the parts of our brain that we use for perception and action, repurposing these evolutionarily older networks to create simulations in our minds. These embodied simulations, as they're called, are what makes it possible for us to become better baseball players by merely visualizing a well-executed swing; what allows us to remember which cupboard the diapers are in without looking, and what makes it so hard to talk on a cell phone while we're driving on the highway. Meaning is more than just knowing definitions of words, as others have previously argued. In understanding language, our brains engage in a creative process of constructing rich mental worlds in which we see, hear, feel, and act. Through whimsical examples and ingenious experiments, Bergen leads us on a virtual tour of the new science of embodied cognition. A brilliant account of our human capacity to understand language, "Louder than Words" will profoundly change how you read, speak, and listen.
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国际认知语言权威,加州大学圣迭戈分校认知科学教授,语言与认知实验室主任,师从于“认知语言学之父”乔治·莱考夫,在国际认知语言学会议上做过几十次特邀演讲。文章常见于《连线》《科学美国人》《时代》《洛杉矶时报》《卫报》《赫芬顿邮报》等杰出的报刊杂志。
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脑神经科学研究终于给我说透了,为啥开车不能接打电话
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这本书看名字很像哲学书,但其实读了一会儿以为是语言学书(类似《话镜》那样的?),读的越多越发现,其实它就是研究脑神经科学的书(更类似《笛卡尔的错误》) 全书的内容我打算用这个例子来引入,但其实它已经是书的结尾了: 人类的独特能力之一,就是语言。那么当我说出一... (展开)推荐序一 所有思考都与我们的身体紧密相连
导读 以及降低一下阅读门槛
具身模拟正在让我们持续制造意义
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5 有用 D Geek鸡血注入 2020-04-06 00:13:07
莱考夫推荐的,simulation真的十分有趣。这个和imagination/visualisation/dreaming的研究结合起来十分带感,非常想试试在高度suggestive的状态下语言可以激发什么样的奇迹。
4 有用 独木桥头闲读书 2014-05-29 14:28:27
里面的心理学实验非常有意思。It is also a promising theory, though it seems not to be able to answer some of the more fundamental questions, such as how do we get to understand a sentence in the first place, i.e. ho... 里面的心理学实验非常有意思。It is also a promising theory, though it seems not to be able to answer some of the more fundamental questions, such as how do we get to understand a sentence in the first place, i.e. how do we hook a sentence unto an embodied simulation. (展开)
0 有用 Yif² 2015-08-29 08:55:33
Wow, the author calls this century the Age of Meaning, while Brian Cantwell Smith calls it the Age of Significance. What a coincidence!
1 有用 迷信鉴定员小谈 2022-07-01 06:47:16
垃圾认知派意义理论
0 有用 斧砸 2020-12-28 23:03:02
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1 有用 迷信鉴定员小谈 2022-07-01 06:47:16
垃圾认知派意义理论
0 有用 斧砸 2020-12-28 23:03:02
补
5 有用 D Geek鸡血注入 2020-04-06 00:13:07
莱考夫推荐的,simulation真的十分有趣。这个和imagination/visualisation/dreaming的研究结合起来十分带感,非常想试试在高度suggestive的状态下语言可以激发什么样的奇迹。
0 有用 赵庚颉 2017-10-31 10:07:15
还是有些疑问。比如,从当下行为实验的数据来看最多只能证明“空间/动觉具身认知加速了相关材料的加工”,但如何证明加工一定要还原到具身认知?还是期待更多稳定的脑成像数据回答这个问题。个人觉得ES在多个任务中主要还是参与基础部分(尤其是对新知识新技能),对熟练技能意义未必那么重大。
0 有用 Yif² 2015-08-29 08:55:33
Wow, the author calls this century the Age of Meaning, while Brian Cantwell Smith calls it the Age of Significance. What a coincidence!