Giovanni Bennardo

Language, Space, and Social Relationships

A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on research carried out in Polynesia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780521883122
• ISBN-10: 0521883121
• Artikelnr.: 26032800

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Bennardo is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A foundational cultural model in Tongan language, culture, and social relationships
2. The Kingdom of Tonga: country, people, and language
Part I. Space in Tongan Language, Culture, and Cognition: 3. Space in Tongan language
4. Space in Tongan cognition
5. Tongan culture and space
Part II. Radiality: 6. The radiality hypothesis
7. Radiality in possession and time
8. Radiality and the Tongan kinship terminology
Part III. Radiality in Social Relationships: 9. Radiality and speech about social relationships
10. Radiality and mental representations of social relationships
11. Radiality in social network
12. A radial mind.