Language, Communication and Cognition

                 International Conference: August 4th-7th 2008


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Lera BoroditskyStanford University

How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think

Herbert H. Clark, Stanford University

Depiction in Communication

Adele GoldbergPrinceton University

The fox is afraid: Evidence for Items and Generalizations

Sotaro Kita, Birmingham University

Gesture, Language & Thought

George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley

The Nature of Thought: The Multiple Roles of the Neural Theory of Metaphor 

Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

The Role of Prototype Constructions in Early Language Development