Of Thoughts And Words: The Relation Between Language And Mind - Proceedings Of Nobel Symposium 92

Download or read book Of Thoughts And Words: The Relation Between Language And Mind - Proceedings Of Nobel Symposium 92 written by Sture Allen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995-11-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of language is an elusive one, and the concept of mind even more so. Still the relation between them is of current interest in many quarters. The purpose of the Nobel Symposium on language and mind was to establish a forum for the discussion of this fundamental relation in a creative perspective. Representatives of several fields of knowledge, arts, and research gathered in an interdisciplinary setting, focusing on five aspects: literature, general linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurology, and artificial intelligence.