Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

This work provides a complete theory of emotional processes, explaining how different emotions are elicited and expressed, and how the emotional ra...

This book explores the interplay between physiological and psychological states in light of increasing evidence that they exert subtle, long-term i...

'Cognitive Grammar' is a theory of language which has been developing since the late 1970's. Underlying the theory is the assumption that language ...

We remember in social contexts. We reminisce about the past together, collaborate to remember shared experiences, and, even when we are alone, we r...

In "The Literary Mind" (OUP, 1996), Mark Turner offered a bold new theory about the role of story and projection in thought and in the origins of l...

Reason and Nature investigates the normative dimension of reason and rationality and how it can be situated within the natural world. Nine philosop...

This book is a condensation of a large body of work concerning human learning carried out over a period of more than five years by Dr. Sun and his ...

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to w...

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in eve...

Integrating common factors research and practice, Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors highlights the deep social justice roots of the approac...

Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a centra...

If humans are purely physical, and if it is the brain that does the work formerly assigned to the mind or soul, then how can it fail to be the case...

This is the first comprehensive account of the segmental phonology of Hungarian in English. Part I introduces the general features of the language....

This book scrutinizes recent work in phonological theory from the perspective of Chomskyan generative linguistics and argues that progress in the f...

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntacti...

This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also ...

Tyler Burge presents a substantial, original study of what it is for individuals to represent the physical world with the most primitive sort of ob...

This book scrutinizes recent work in phonological theory from the perspective of Chomskyan generative linguistics and argues that progress in the f...

This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word...

This provocative book explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas on the basis of common structures and functions of human thought. The...

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in...

Concerns about philosophical methodology have emerged as a central issue in contemporary philosophical discussions. In this volume, Tamar Gendler d...

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntacti...