Giovanni Bennardo

Language, Space, and Social Relationships (eBook, PDF)

A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia

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Produktbeschreibung

The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of enquiry. This book discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on the results of a fieldwork project carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga in Polynesia. It challenges some existing assumptions in linguistics, cognitive anthropology and cognitive science and proposes a new foundational cultural model, 'radiality', to show how space, time and social relationships are expressed both linguistically and cognitively. A foundational cultural model is knowledge that is repeated in several domains and shared within a cultural homogeneous group. These knowledge structures are lenses through which we interpret the world and guide our behaviour. The book will be welcomed by researchers and students working within the fields of psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cognitive science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511537004
• Artikelnr.: 38193413

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.