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Author & Title:
Giorgio Marchetti, Giulio Benedetti and Ahlam
Alharbi (Eds.), Attention and Meaning. The
Attentional Basis of Meaning,
Nova Science Publishers,
Hauppauge, NY, 2015
Book description:
Among the cognitive processes involved in the
construction of any kind of meaning, attention is fundamental in
determining why, how and what we mean. Attention plays a primary role in
the process of learning the meanings of words and more generally of
acquiring knowledge; signification, discourse and persuasion; perceiving,
representing and (re)framing reality; shaping the attitudes of the
audience; conveying values and ideologies. Conversely, the meanings of
words and more generally, of signs, convey the condensed instructions for
the attentional operations one has to perform in order to consciously
experience what is expressed through and by them. Language, by addressing
and guiding attention in specific ways, helps to select, amplify and
support certain semantic components and concepts, and construct and
communicate knowledge and values.
This book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the extant
research on the relationships between attention and meaning. The
contributions collected here offer an overview of the most prominent
theories and models developed so far that aim to explain how attention
determines meaning construction.
This book will be of interest to students, researchers and teachers in the
realm of linguistics, semantics, discourse studies, semiotics,
psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, linguistic development,
cognitive architectures of language, neuropsychology of linguistic
function and social psychology.
Table of Contents:
Introduction pp.vii-xx
Chapter 1. Operational Linguistics: A Brief Introduction
(Giulio Benedetti, Pisa, Italy) pp.1-32
Chapter 2. Attentional Semantics: An Overview
(Giorgio Marchetti, Pozzo d’Adda, Italy) pp.33-76
Chapter 3. Attentional Semantics and Reading
(Hugo Mari, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais – PUC Minas,
Coração Eucarístico Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil) pp.77-92
Chapter 4. A Cognitivist Attentional Semantics of Locative Prepositions
(Kai-Uwe Carstensen, Philosophical Faculty, University of Siegen, Siegen,
Germany) pp.93-132
Chapter 5. Attentional State: From Automatic Detection to Willful Focused
Concentration
(Andrew A. Fingelkurts, Alexander A. Fingelkurts, BM-Science Brain and
Mind Technologies Research Centre, Espoo, Finland) pp.133-150
Chapter 6. Attention and the Experience of Language
(Todd Oakley, Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH, USA) pp.151-188
Chapter 7. Emotions, Attention and Blending
(Sandra Cavalcante and Josiane Militão, Pontifícia Universidade Católica
de Minas Gerais – Brazil, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Coração
Eucarístico, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil) pp.189-206
Chapter 8. How Attention Determines Meaning: A Cognitive-Semantic Study of
the Steady-State Causatives Remain, Stay, Continue, Keep, Still, On
(Martina Lampert, English Linguistics – Department of English and
Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) pp.207-240
Chapter 9. Attention! Death is Mentioned: A Cognitive Semantic
Investigation into News Reports of Death
(Ahlam Alharbi and Mona Bahmani, Taif University, Taif, K.S.A., and others)
pp.241-272
Chapter 10. Attention as the Origin of Meaning Formation
(Jean M. Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of
California San Diego, La Jolla, CA) pp.273-290
Chapter 11. The Evolution of a Hierarchy of Attention
(Edmund Blair Bolles, Independent Scholar, New York, NY, USA) pp.291-318
Chapter 12. The Semantics of Sensor Observations Based on Attention
(Simon Scheider, Christoph Stasch, Institute for Geoinformatics,
University of Münster, Heisenbergstrasse, Münster, Germany) pp.319-344
Author Index pp.345-354
Subject Index pp.355-360
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