(2002) Semantics and cognition

Published on May 12, 2017. Last updated on June 22, 2019.

Goddard, Cliff, & Wierzbicka, Anna (2002). Semantics and cognition. In Lynn Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science (pp. 1096-1102). New York: John Wiley.

Abstract:

The words and grammar of any language encode a vast array of prepackaged concepts, most of them complex and culture-related. Since language plays an important role in normal human cognition, the nature and extent of semantic variation across languages is a key research question for cognitive science.

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