Space in language and cognition: explorations in cognitive diversity

"Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This book shows that even in a core cognitive domain, such as spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about...

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1. Verfasser: Levinson, Stephen C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003
Schriftenreihe:Language, culture and cognition 5
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Zusammenfassung:"Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This book shows that even in a core cognitive domain, such as 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 most current thinking in the cognitive sciences underestimates the transformative power of language on thinking. The book will appeal to all researchers interested in the relation of language to other areas of cognition - linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers - and especially to students of spacial cognition."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:XXIII, 389 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:0521011965
9780521011969
0521812623
9780521812627

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