University of Tehran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Department of general linguistics/PhD candidate
Abstract
The book under review is titled "Concepts as correlates of lexical labels: a cognitive perspective (2015)" has been compiled by the Polish author Slawomir Wacewicz as an expansion of his earlier article under the same title published in 2011. The author tries to establish a systematic account of the connection between linguistic layer (lexical items), psychological layer (concepts), and cognitive layer (categories of perceptual experience) through the introduction of an novel framework based on the latest findings in cognitive science and cognitive semantics. The main course of argument advocated throughout this work suggests that if the main function of the human mind is 'cognition' and perception of his erfahrungweld (experienced world) and if cognition is the process of representing such an erfahrungweld through partitioning it into different 'categories' and naming their extensions as differently perceived experiences then concepts are nothing more than mental-lexical labels assigned to some of these perceptional categories.
Nasri, A. (2019). A review of "Concepts as correlates of lexical labels: a cognitive perspective" by Slawomir Wacewicz. A Critique Letter on Linguistics, 08(1), -.
MLA
Nasri, A. . "A review of "Concepts as correlates of lexical labels: a cognitive perspective" by Slawomir Wacewicz", A Critique Letter on Linguistics, 08, 1, 2019, -.
HARVARD
Nasri, A. (2019). 'A review of "Concepts as correlates of lexical labels: a cognitive perspective" by Slawomir Wacewicz', A Critique Letter on Linguistics, 08(1), pp. -.
CHICAGO
A. Nasri, "A review of "Concepts as correlates of lexical labels: a cognitive perspective" by Slawomir Wacewicz," A Critique Letter on Linguistics, 08 1 (2019): -,
VANCOUVER
Nasri, A. A review of "Concepts as correlates of lexical labels: a cognitive perspective" by Slawomir Wacewicz. A Critique Letter on Linguistics, 2019; 08(1): -.
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