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Title: The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure by Michael Tomasello ISBN: 0-8058-3429-X Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Summary: Clear functionalism
Comment: This book is a welcome and clear-headed exposition of functional approaches to linguistics, from a lot of perspectives.

Here's the contents:

M. Tomasello -- Introduction to the Volume: Some Surprises for Psychologists.
L. Talmy -- Concept Structuring Systems in Language.
J. DuBois -- Discourse and Grammar.
S. Kemmer -- Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories.
C. Ford, B. Fox, S. Thompson -- Social Interaction and Grammar.
J. Bybee -- Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization.
K. van Hoek -- Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference.
B. Comrie -- On Explaining Language Universals.
M. Haspelmath -- The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Crosslinguistic Comparison.
C. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor -- Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of "Let Alone"

Amazon doesn't have editorial desdescription on this book, so I'll quote the publisher's blurb:

"From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals.
The account of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings (not formal devices) comprehend, produce, and acquire natural languages. The current volume brings together 10 of the most important linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is often not easily available to those outside the field. In original contributions, each of these scholars focus on an important aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to readers who are not professional linguists. Of special importance to all of the contributions are the cognitive and social interactional processes that constitute human linguistic communication. The book should be of special interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and developmental psycholinguists, in addition to linguists taking a more psychological approach to language."

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