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

Broschiertes Buch

Space in Language and Cognition

Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

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