Space in Language and Cognition - Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

Informationen zum Autor Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. His publications include Pragmatics (Cambridge, 1983), Politeness (co-author Cambridge, 1987), Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (co-editor, Cambridge, 1996), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development (co-editor, Cambridge, 2001) and Presumptive Meaning (2001). Klappentext In this 2003 book, Stephen C. Levinson uses differences between languages to explore the relation between language and thought. Zusammenfassung In this 2003 book! Stephen C. Levinson uses differences between languages to explore the relation between language and thought. He shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking! language influences how people think! memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The intellectual background: two millenia of Western ideas about spatial thinking; 2. Frames of reference; 3. Linguistic diversity; 4. Absolute minds: glimpses into two cultures; 5. Diversity in mind: methods and results from a cross-linguistic sample; 6. Beyond language: frames of reference in wayfinding and pointing; 7. Language and thought.

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• Authors: Stephen C. Levinson, Stephen C. (Max-Planck-Institut Fur Psyc Levinson, Steven Levinson, Max Planck Institut Fur Psycholinguis, Max Planck Institut Fur Psycholinguistik
• Assisted by: Stephen C. Levinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2003
• EAN: 9780521812627
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81262-7
• No. of pages: 414
• Series: Language, Culture, and Cogniti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics