Stephen C. Levinson, Max Planck Institut Fur Psycholinguistik, Max Planck Institut Fur Psycholinguis

Space in Language and Cognition

Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 2003 book, Stephen C. Levinson uses differences between languages to explore the relation between language and thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9780521812627
• ISBN-10: 0521812623
• Artikelnr.: 29337053

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.