This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decisionmaking process, using the metaphor of CHOICE as CUBE. The areas of key interest are language, culture, and education as forms of social organization. This book addresses issues relevant to a number of fields, including social epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, philosophy, culture and education studies, and will be of interest to readers in these and related disciplines.
This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decisionmaking process, using the metaphor of CHOICE as CUBE. The areas of key interest are language, culture, and education as forms of social organization. This book addresses issues relevant to a number of fields, including social epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, philosophy, culture and education studies, and will be of interest to readers in these and related disciplines.
¿Marek Küniak is a Professor of Linguistics at Wroc¿aw University, Poland. He is the author of books and articles in cognitive linguistics, legal translation, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. He is a member of numerous Polish and international associations, including the Polish Linguistic Association, Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Linguistic Society of America, and Societas Linguistica Europaea.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Choice and Decision Research.- Chapter 3: Choice CUBE.- Chapter 4: Language, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 5: CUBE Effects in Language.- Chapter 6: Culture, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 7: CUBE Effects in Culture.- Chapter 8: Education, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 9: CUBE Effects in Education.- Chapter 10: General Conclusions.