Talking About Thinking Language, Thought, and Mentalizing

Our ability to attribute mental states to others ("to mentalize") has been the subject of philosophical and psychological studies for a very long time, yet the role of language acquisition in the development of our mentalizing abilities has been largely understudied. This book addresses th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berio, Leda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, [2021]
Series:Epistemic Studies ; 49
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Part I: Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Language and thought: in favor of a role for linguistic information in cognition
  • Part II: Talking about minds, thinking about minds: mental terms acquisition and the role of language in mentalizing
  • Chapter 3: Mental state verbs and constructions: acquisition timeline, semantics and syntactic occurrences
  • Chapter 4: Language and social cognition: data about the role of language in mentalizing
  • Part III: Bridging the gap: theories about the interaction between language and mentalizing
  • Chapter 5: Psychological and philosophical theories of the influence of language on mentalizing
  • Chapter 6: LALAS: Language Associations Labels Acquired Schemata
  • Part IV: Conclusions
  • Chapter 7: Conclusions and outlook for future research
  • Bibliography
  • Subject index