Specifically, I'm interested in concepts and conceptual development from the view of linguistic semantics and language acquisition. Ray Jackendoff talks about the relation between conceptual and semantic structure quite a bit. His definition of 'concept' seems to be a mental representation that can serve as the meaning of a linguistic expression. This seems to work for nouns (e.g. 'dog' denotes the concept DOG), but what are we to make of verbs? What about temporal forms? Does the English past-tense marker, '-ed,' express the concept PAST? What about modal forms? Does the English epistemic modal auxiliary 'might' express the concept POSSIBILITY?
Guy Williams,
I am not a linguist. I disagree with the concept that a concept is a mental representation. Infants acquire their concepts when they through their social interaction in learning language learn to use words appropriatly. They learn the concept of numbers by learning to use numbers in all ways demanded by their teachers. Now for a concept indicated by the word ''tree''. One day when I was kid my father pointed a tree and said ''tree'' and I said ''tree'' and he approved and from that day with a bit of practices in my use of the word I have learned that this type of image structure I was already familiar with, this type of surfaces I was touching and mouving around and climbing was a tree and I then learn to talk about trees and what I did around trees or my experience on climbing trees. All these sensorry motors experience then could be share through language narrative with those knowing these language and that had these experiences. So language interaction, a certain of group activities done with the body of the participants could be engaged where we together enter a living dream narrative following shared linguistic conventions for self-enacting our sensory-motor systems like in dreams or like in the real situation these narratives are describing. In these communication engagements like in the real situation the nervous systems of the participant are coupled to each other and operated in group modes.
Roughly speaking, the mental machinery to identify an object, an action or an attribute.
Thus, we can consider that a concept is the set of properties that specify an object, an action, a relationship, or a property itself.
If these properties are deduced, the concept possess a logical structure. By contrast, if are obtained from an analogic mental representation, the concept is intuitive.
Our concept is closely associated & related to our mind .Our mind is a storage of various action of our life including the action & the result of fruits of our previous lives .
This is the concept of our mind which help to take a right course of action & if we follow the life in this direction which may certainly help us for our progressive life & the career development .
It is not necessary that the concept always flows in the direction & it is the source of an idea & Idea may be of the right tone or otherwise & for flow of concept it is only with us & depend on our ideas & is flow of its action .
Very often it has been observed that idea creates certain course of our action in the form of belief .This generates in our mind a feeling of concentration & sometime with the understanding for which we may accept the belief in the life proportion .
This is my personal opinion
Dear Guy,
Please see my paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286929926_Concept_Representation_Analysis_in_The_Context_of_Human-Machine_Interactions
Best,
Farshad
Conference Paper Concept Representation Analysis in The Context of Human-Mach...
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