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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