Knowledge and language (North-Holland, 1986)
Selection of papers originally presented at the International Conference on Knowledge and Language held in Jachranka near Warsaw in June 1984 and organized by the Psycholinguistic Unit, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
How do people represent their knowledge about the world and use that knowledge for communication? This question is the central theme of this book. Among the aspects discussed in the first three sections are: the relationship between formal, logical descriptions of language, and psychological analyses of language use; how knowledge interacts with language use; and childrens' acquisition of language in different countries. In the last two sections, the topics discussed include the complex relationships between the development, transmission, and comprehension of intention and meaning, the growth