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Overview
This book assesses current assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, from the perspective of neurolinguistics, which is based on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Fred C. C. Peng argues that language is behaviour, which has evolved in human genetics through time. Like all behaviours, language utilises many body parts which are controlled by the cortical and subcortical structures of the brain. Language in the brain is memory-governed, meaning-centred, and multifaceted. This view is a challenge to conventional neuroscience, which sees language and speech as separate entities; such a convention is not consistent with how the brain functions. Dr Peng's study of language in the brain has wide-reaching implications for the study of language disorders, neurolinguistics, and psycholinguistics in dealing with dementia, aphasia, and schizophrenia. This cutting-edge research monograph presents challenging new insights in the field of neuroscience to a linguistic audience and will also benefit neuroscientists. It will be essential reading for academics researching any aspect of language and the brain.
Synopsis
Peng (neurosurgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan) explores the question "What is language?" from the perspective of neurolinguistics, which is based on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Coverage includes an overview of the historical linguistics, semiotics, and neuroscience perspectives on what language is; the author's suggestions for remedying the current situations in linguistics and semiotics and developing a new direction for linguistics, semiotics, and neuroscience; extensive discussion of the structure and function of the brain, with regard to the individual aspect of language, based on the author's findings from clinical practice and academic research conducted over the past 20 years; and how content and expression function in the brain from the point of view of production and reception. For linguists, neuroscientists, and academics researching any aspect of language and the brain. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR