Ebook Space in language and cognition: Part 1

This page intentionally left blank SPACE IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION Explorations in Cognitive Diversity Languages differ in how they describe space,and such differences betweenlanguagescanbeusedtoexploretherelationbetweenlan-guage 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 locallanguage.Thebookreportsoncollaborative,interdisciplinary research,involvinganthropologists,linguistsandpsychologists,con-ductedinmanylanguagesandculturesaroundtheworld,whiches-tablishesthisrobustcorrelation.Theoverallresultssuggestthatmost current thinking in the cognitive sciences underestimates the trans-formative power of language on thinking. The book will appeal to allresearchersinterestedintherelationoflanguagetootherareasof cognition – linguists,psychologists,anthropologists,philosophers – and especially to students of spacial cognition.  .  isDirectoroftheMaxPlanckInstitutefor Psycholinguistics and Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. His publications include Pragmatics (Cam-bridge, ), Politeness (co-author,Cambridge, ), Rethinking lin-guistic relativity (co-editor,Cambridge, ), Language acquisition and conceptual development (co-editor,Cambridge, ),and Presumptive meanings (). Language, culture and cognition Editor STEPHEN C. LEVINSON Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,Nijmegen This new series looks at the role of language in human cognition – language in bothitsuniversal,psychologicalaspectsanditsvariable,culturalaspects.Studies will focus on the relation between semantic and conceptual categories and pro-cesses,especially as these are illuminated by cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies,the study of language acquisition and conceptual development,and the study of the relation of speech production and comprehension to other kinds of behaviour in cultural context. Books come principally,though not exclusively, from research associated with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen,and in particular the Language and Cognition Group.  Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson (eds.) Language and Conceptualization  David McNeill (ed.) Language and Gesture  Melissa Bowerman and Stephen C. Levinson (eds.) Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development  Gunter Senft (ed.) Systems of Nominal Classification  Stephen C. Levinson Space in Language and Cognition ... - tailieumienphi.vn