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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “The inside is clean. The covers have minor signs of use.”
- Subject
- Languages
- ISBN
- 9780521011969
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521011965
ISBN-13
9780521011969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2311452
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
414 Pages
Publication Name
Space in Language and Cognition : Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Time, Linguistics / Psycholinguistics, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Science, Psychology
Series
Language Culture and Cognition Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-067212
Reviews
"A fundamental part of this new-Whorfian movement has been Stephen Levinson's thinking about spatial language and cognition. It is valuable to have most of his arguments and data gathered together in this thought-provoking book." - Nora S. Newcombe, Human Development, "Levinson's book will certainly stand as a textbook in the study of the relationship between language and cognition, and is rich and challenging reading...Those with an interest in the issue of linguistic variation will find an unusually well-documented and well-argued presentation of the actual variation in the domain of spatial reference." -Ingjerd Hoem, Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History, The Kon-Tiki Museum, Anthropological Linguistics, "A fundamental part of this new-Whorfian movement has been Stephen Levinson's thinking about spatial language and cognition. It is valuable to have most of his arguments and data gathered together in this thought-provoking book." -Nora S. Newcombe, Human Development
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
Series Number 5
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
401/.9
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a typology of spatial coordinate systems in language and cognition, it is shown that not all languages use all types, and that non-linguistic cognition mirrors the systems available in the local language. The book reports on collaborative, interdisciplinary research, involving anthropologists, linguists and psychologists, conducted in many languages and cultures around the world, which establishes this robust correlation. The overall results suggest that thinking in the cognitive sciences underestimates the transformative power of language on thinking. The book will be of interest to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers, and especially to students of spatial cognition., Spatial orientation and direction are core areas of human and animal thinking. But, unlike animals, human populations vary considerably in their spatial thinking. Revealing that these differences correlate with language (which is probably mostly responsible for the different cognitive styles), this book includes many cross-cultural studies investigating spatial memory, reasoning, types of gesture and wayfinding abilities. It explains the relationship between language and cognition and cross-cultural differences in thinking to students of language and the cognitive sciences., 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.
LC Classification Number
P37.5.S65L48 2002
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