理论与方法专栏 | 语言、生物与认知

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《理论语言学五道口站》（2022年第21期，总第224期）理论与方法专栏为大家推荐印度海得拉巴的印度理工学院语言学与认知科学助理教授Prakash Mondal的著作：Language, Biology and Cognition（《语言、生物与认知》）。该书于2020年10月在Springer出版。

著作简介

Language, Biology and Cognition

《语言、生物与认知》

Abstract：

This book examines the relationship between human language and biology in order to determine whether the biological foundations of language can offer deep insights into the nature and form of language and linguistic cognition. Challenging the assumption in biolinguistics and neurolinguistics that natural language and linguistic cognition can be reconciled with neurobiology. He finds that biological implementations of cognitive rather than the biological structures themselves, are the driver behind linguistic structures. In particular, this book argues that the biological roots of language are useful only for an understanding of the emergence of linguistic capacity as a whole, but ultimately irrelevant to understanding the character of language. Offering an antidote to the current thinking embracing ‘biologism’ in linguistic sciences, it will be of interest to readers in linguistics, the cognitive and brain sciences, and the points at which these disciplines converge with the computer sciences.

简介：

该书研究人类语言与生物学之间的关系，探讨语言的生物学基础是否有助于了解语言本质、语言形式及认知过程。该书重新思考生物语言学和神经语言学中的自然语言认知与神经生物学相协调的假设，发现语言结构背后的驱动力是生物学中的认知观点而非生物学结构本身。更为重要的是，该书认为探究语言生物学根源仅有助于了解语言能力，但不能理解语言特性。它为当前语言科学中包含“生物学”的思想提供了新方法，势必受到语言学、认知科学和脑科学以及这些学科与计算机科学相结合等领域的学者的欢迎。

作者简介

- Prakash Modal-

Prakash Mondal , 印度理工学院语言学与认知科学助理教授。他对语言如何与广义上的认知发生联系，以及它如何与意义、计算和生物学问题联系起来感兴趣。他的论文和书籍（已发表或即将出版）涵盖语言、认知和计算等交叉领域的研究。

Prakash Mondal is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. He is interested in how language relates to cognition in the broadest sense and how it links to problems of meaning, computation, and biology. His papers and books (published or forthcoming) are at the cross-section of language, cognition and computation. 

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