Stephen C. Levinson (The Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik

Space in Language and Cognition

Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Language Culture and Cognition
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521011969
• ISBN-10: 0521011965
• Artikelnr.: 12487618

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"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