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How perspective shift integrates thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Brian MacWhinney
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 macw@cmu.edu http://psyling.psy.cmu.edu/brian/

Abstract

Within the context of Carruthers’ general analysis of the relation between language and thought, I present a specific hypothesis about how grammar uses perspective flow to unify disparate cognitions. This perspective hypothesis allows us to understand the neolithic burst in creativity as a cultural advance in methods for knitting together thoughts.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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