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8.10a Consciousness and Language

See also: 3.8d. Perceptual Reports, 7.2h. Language and Thought, 8.3i. Development of Consciousness, 8.3j. The Stream of Consciousness, 8.9b. Verbal Reports and Heterophenomenology.

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Bailey, W. (1986). Consciousness and action/motion theories of communication. Western Journal of Speech Communication 50:74-86.   (Google | Edit)
Bever, Thomas G. & Townsend, David J. (2001). Some sentences on our consciousness of sentences. In Emmanuel Dupoux (ed.), Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler. MIT Press.   (Cited by 1 | Google | More links | Edit)
Blachowicz, James A. (1997). The dialogue of the soul with itself. Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (4-5):485-508.   (Cited by 10 | Google | Edit)
Brook, Andrew (1996). Jackendoff and consciousness. Pragmatics and Cognition 4 (1):81-92.   (Cited by 1 | Google | Edit)
Carruthers, Peter (1996). The involvement of language in conscious thinking. In Language, Thought, and Consciousness. Cambridge University Press.   (Google | Edit)
Chafe, Wallace L. (1994). Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. University of Chicago Press.   (Cited by 620 | Google | More links | Edit)
Chafe, Wallace L. (1996). How consciousness shapes language. Pragmatics and Cognition 4 (1):35-54.   (Google | Edit)
Chafe, Wallace L. (2007). Language and consciousness. In Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch & Evan Thompson (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Cambridge.   (Cited by 121 | Google | More links | Edit)
Chafe, Wallace L. (1980). The deployment of consciousness in the construction of narrative. In Wallace L. Chafe (ed.), The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production. Ablex.   (Google | Edit)
Chapman, S. B. & Ulatowska, H. K. (1997). Discourse in dementia: Considerations of consciousness. In Maxim I. Stamenov (ed.), Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness. John Benjamins.   (Google | Edit)
Clowes, Robert (2007). A self-regulation model of inner speech and its role in the organisation of human conscious experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (7):59-71.   (Google | More links | Edit)
Abstract: This paper argues for the importance of inner speech in a proper understanding of the structure of human conscious experience. It reviews one recent attempt to build a model of inner speech based on a grammaticization model (Steels, 2003) and compares it with a self-regulation model here proposed. This latter model is located within the broader literature on the role of language in cognition and the inner voice in consciousness. I argue that this role is not limited to checking the grammatical correctness of prospective utterances before they are spoken. Rather, it is a more broadly activity-structuring role, regulating and shaping the ongoing shape of human activity in the world. Through linking inner speech to the control of attention, I argue that the study of the functional role of inner speech should be a central area of analysis in our attempt to understand the development and qualitative character of human consciousness and that modelling can play a central role in that understanding
de Beaugrande, R. (1997). The "conscious and unconscious mind" in the theoretical discourse of modern linguistics. In Maxim I. Stamenov (ed.), Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness. John Benjamins.   (Google | Edit)
Ellis, Ralph D. (1996). Ray Jackendoff's phenomenology of language as a refutation of the 'appendage' theory of consciousness. Pragmatics and Cognition 4 (1):125-137.   (Google | Edit)
Fireman, Gary D.; McVay, T. E. & Flanagan, Owen J. (2003). Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain. Oxford University Press.   (Cited by 6 | Google | More links | Edit)
Fludernik, M. & Sell, R. D. (1995). The fictions of language and the languages of fiction: The linguistic representation of speech and consciousness. Journal of Pragmatics 24.   (Cited by 96 | Google | More links | Edit)
Glicksohn, Joseph (2001). Metaphor and consciousness: The path less taken. Journal of Mind and Behavior 22 (4):343-364.   (Google | Edit)
Johnston, P. K. (1997). Battle within: Shakespeare's brain and the nature of human consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (4):365-73.   (Google | Edit)
Langacker, Ronald W. (1997). Consciousness, construal, and subjectivity. In Maxim I. Stamenov (ed.), Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness. John Benjamins.   (Cited by 8 | Google | Edit)
Lecours, A. R. (1998). Language contrivance on consciousness (and vice versa). In H. Jasper, L. Descarries, V. Castellucci & S. Rossignol (eds.), Consciousness: At the Frontiers of Neuroscience. Lippincott-Raven.   (Cited by 1 | Google | More links | Edit)
Leontiev, A. N. (2005). Lecture 13. language and consciousness. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology 43 (5):5-13.   (Google | Edit)
Macphail, E. (2000). The search for a mental rubicon. In C. Heyes & Ludwig Huber (eds.), The Evolution of Cognition. MIT Press.   (Cited by 7 | Google | Edit)
Markey, J. F. (1925). The place of language habits in a behavioristic explanation of consciousness. Psychological Review 32:384-401.   (Cited by 2 | Google | Edit)
Marsh, James L. (1978). Consciousness and expression. Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 9:105-109.   (Google | Edit)
Nelson, Katherine (2003). Narrative and the emergence of a consciousness of self. In Gary D. Fireman, T. E. McVay & Owen J. Flanagan (eds.), Narrative and Consciousness. Oxford University Press.   (Cited by 8 | Google | More links | Edit)
Pronko, N. H. (1987). Language with or without consciousness. In G. Greenberg & E. Tobach (eds.), Cognition, Language and Consciousness: Integrative Levels. Lawrence Erlbaum.   (Google | Edit)
Ricciardelli, L. A. (1993). Two components of metalinguistic awareness: Control of linguistic processing and analysis of linguistic knowledge. Applied Psycholinguistics 14:349-367.   (Cited by 11 | Google | Edit)
Schooler, Jonathan W. & Fiore, S. M. (1997). Consciousness and the limits of language: You can't always say what you think or think what you say. In Jonathan D. Cohen & Jonathan W. Schooler (eds.), Scientific Approaches to Consciousness. Lawrence Erlbaum.   (Cited by 7 | Google | Edit)
Sekhar, A. C. (1948). Language and consciousness. Indian Journal of Psychology 23:79-84.   (Google | Edit)
Sinha, Vimalendu N. (1987). Symbolic language not a pre-requisite for self-awareness. Psycho-Lingua 17:115-121.   (Google | Edit)
Smith, Thomas R. (2004). Narrative and consciousness: Review article. Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (5-6):146-155.   (Google | Edit)
Stamenov, Maxim I. (1997). Grammar, meaning, and consciousness: What sentence structure can tell us about the structure of consciousness. In Maxim I. Stamenov (ed.), Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness. John Benjamins.   (Cited by 5 | Google | Edit)
Stamenov, Maxim I. (2003). Language and self-consciousness: Modes of self-presentation in language structure. In Tilo Kircher & Anthony S. David (eds.), The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry. Cambridge University Press.   (Cited by 10 | Google | Edit)
Stamenov, Maxim I. (2001). Language structure and the structure of consciousness: Can one find a 'common denominator' between them? In Paavo Pylkkanen & Tere Vaden (eds.), Dimensions of Conscious Experience. John Benjamins.   (Google | Edit)
Stamenov, Maxim I. (ed.) (1997). Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness. John Benjamins.   (Cited by 2 | Google | More links | Edit)
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8.10b Parapsychology and Consciousness

Atkinson, Anthony P.; Baker, I. S.; Blackmore, Susan J.; Braud, William; Burns, Jean E.; Carpenter, R. H. S.; Clarke, Christopher J. S.; Ellis, Ralph D.; Fontana, David; French, Christopher C.; Radin, D.; Schlitz, M.; Schmidt, Stefan & Velmans, Max (2005). Open Peer commentary on 'the sense of being stared at' parts 1 &. Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (6):50-116.   (Google | Edit)
Augustine, Keith (2007). Does paranormal perception occur in near-death experiences? Journal of Near Death Studies 25 (4):203-236.   (Google | Edit)
Augustine, Keith (2007). Near-death experiences with hallucinatory features. Journal of Near Death Studies 26 (1):3-31.   (Google | Edit)
Augustine, Keith (2007). Psychophysiological and cultural correlates undermining a survivalist interpretation of near-death experiences. Journal of Near Death Studies 26 (2):89-125.   (Google | Edit)
Beloff, John (1980). Could there be a physical explanation for psi? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 50:263-272.   (Cited by 5 | Google | Edit)
Beloff, John (1989). Dualism: A parapsychological perspective. In J. Smythies & John Beloff (eds.), The Case for Dualism. Virginia University Press.   (Cited by 3 | Google | Edit)
Beloff, John (1976). Mind-body interactionism in light of the parapsychological evidence. Theoria to Theory 10 (May):125-37.   (Google | Edit)
Beloff, John (1990). Parapsychology and radical dualism. In The Relentless Question. McFarland & Company.   (Cited by 7 | Google | Edit)
Beloff, John (1987). Parapsychology and the mind-body problem. Inquiry 30 (September):215-25.   (Cited by 5 | Google | Edit)
Beloff, John (1973). The subliminal and the extrasensory. Parapsychology Review 4:23-27.   (Cited by 3 | Google | Edit)
Bem, D. J. & Honorton, C. (1994). Does psi exist? Replicable evidence for an anomalous process of information transfer. Psychological Bulletin 115:4-18.   (Cited by 144 | Google | Edit)
Betty, L. Stafford (2004). Mind, paranormal experience, and the inadequacy of materialism. International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3):373-392.   (Google | Edit)
Bierman, Dick (2003). Does consciousness collapse the wave-packet? Mind and Matter 1 (1):45-57.   (Cited by 9 | Google | More links | Edit)
Abstract: The 'subjective reduction' interpretation of measurement in quantum physics proposes that the collapse of the wave-packet, associated with measurement, is due to the consciousness of human observers. A refined conceptual replication of an earlier experiment, designed and carried out to test this interpretation in the 1970s, is reported. Two improvements are introduced. First, the delay between pre-observation and final observation of the same quantum event is increased from a few microseconds in the original experiment to one second in this replication. Second, rather than using the final observers' verbal response as the dependent variable, his early brain responses as measured by EEG are used. These early responses cover a period during which an observer is not yet conscious of an observed event. Our results support the 'subjective reduction' hypothesis insofar as significant differences in the brain responses of the final observer are found, depending on whether or not the pre-observer has been looking at the quantum event . Alternative 'normal' explanations are discussed and rejected. It is concluded that the present results do justify further research along these lines
Bierman, Dick (1998). Do psi phenomena suggest radical dualism? In Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak & A. C. Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness II. MIT Press.   (Cited by 6 | Google | Edit)
Bierman, Dick (2001). On the nature of anamalous phenomena: Another reality between the world of subjective consciousness and the objective world of physics? In P. Van Loocke (ed.), The Physical Nature of Consciousness. John Benjamins.   (Google | Edit)
Blackmore, Susan (1992). Psychic experiences: Psychic illusions. Skeptical Inquirer 16:367-376.   (Cited by 9 | Google | Edit)
Abstract: Why do so many people believe in psychic phenomena? Because they have psychic experiences. And why do they have psychic experiences? Because such experiences are an inevitable consequence of the way we think. I suggest that, like visual illusions, they are the price we pay for a generally very effective relationship with a massively complex world
Blackmore, Susan (1998). Why psi tells us nothing about consciousness. In S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak & A. Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness. MIT Press.   (Google | Edit)
Abstract: Also published in 1998 in S.R.Hameroff, A.W.Kaszniak and .C.Scott (Eds) _Toward a Science of_ _Consciousness II._ MIT Press. 701-707. Note that there were problems with the editing of this volume and there are some misprints. This version is correct
Blackmore, Susan J. (1991). Psi in science. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 57:404-11.   (Google | Edit)
Blackmore, Susan J. (2001). What can the paranormal teach us about consciousness ? Skeptical Inquirer 25 (2):22-27.   (Cited by 6 | Google | Edit)
Abstract: Consciousness is a hot topic. Relegated to the fringes of science for most of the twentieth century, the question of consciousness only crept back to legitimacy with the collapse of behaviourism in the 1960s and 1970s, and only recently became an acceptable term for psychologists to use. Now many neuroscientists talk enthusiastically about the nature of consciousness, there are societies and regular conferences, and some say that consciousness is the greatest challenge for twenty-first century science. Although confusion abounds, there is at least some agreement that at the heart of the problem lies the question of subjectivity - or what it’s like for _me_. As philosopher Thomas Nagel (1974) put it when he asked his famous question "What is it like to be a bat?" - if there is something it is like _for the bat_ then we can say that the bat is conscious. This is what we mean by consciousness - consciousness is private and subjective and this is why it is so difficult to understand
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