Great Courses – Language and Mind 2020-3 – Download

Description

Language and Mind is a course on language and the human mind published by The Great Courses online academy. Language is the supreme invention of wise man, an invention that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every imaginable way, and an invention that has fundamentally changed ourselves. Research has shown that sighted or blind, hearing or deaf, centenarian or centenarian, communication through language is a fundamental part of what it means to be human. Language and the mind are fascinating journeys into many aspects of life that we take for granted every day: our ability to remember the past and imagine the future, the ability of a healthy infant to learn its native language without direct instruction, our use of gestures. . Hand. and facial expressions in communication and much more.

This is a deep dive into the fascinating experiments that have recently revealed how we understand language and how we learn. Many other animals display their innate behavior to deceive others, but none can lie like us. We have the ability to know one thing and at the same time use language to declare something else to be absolutely true. In this course, you will become familiar with language and the human mind, understand the relationship between them and learn how language distinguishes us from other creatures and how it affects our lives.

What you will learn in the Language and Mind course:

Language as a system
How the brain created language
Development: the mind in the making
Mastery of language structure
How the brain understands language
How writing changed consciousness
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Course characteristics

Publisher: Great Courses
Instructors: Spencer Kelly, Ph.D.
English language
Level: from introductory to advanced
Number of lessons: 24
Duration: 12 hours 24 minutes