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Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communicationEdited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
[Human Cognitive Processing 65] 2019
► pp. vii–viii
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
[Human Cognitive Processing 65] 2019
► pp. vii–viii
Table of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I.Abstract concepts in the mind: Conceptual processing and cognitive grounding of abstract concepts
Chapter 1.The relevance of specific semantic categories in investigating the neural bases of abstract and concrete semantics
Chapter 2.Abstract concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors
Chapter 3.Inferential processing with concrete vs. abstract words and visual cortex
Chapter 5.Is the acoustic modality relevant for abstract concepts? A study with the Extrinsic Simon task
Part II.Abstract concepts in language: Insights from psycholinguistics and lexical semantics
Chapter 6.Determinants of abstractness and concreteness and their persuasive effects
Chapter 8.Different degrees of abstraction from visual cues in processing concrete nouns
Chapter 9.Cognitive and linguistic aspects of composition in German particle verbs
Part III.Abstract concepts in communication: Corpus analyses and spontaneous production of words referring to abstract concepts
Chapter 11.Abstract concepts in development: Spontaneous production of word-formation in Swedish child language
Chapter 12.The development of the abstract scientific concept of heat energy in a naturalistic classroom setting
Analytical index
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