Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity: 5 (Language Culture and Cognition, Series Number 5)

Levinson, Stephen C.

ISBN 10: 0521011965 / ISBN 13: 9780521011969

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity: 5 (Language Culture and Cognition, Series Number 5)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521011965
• ISBN 13: 9780521011969
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 680 grams

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Synopsis

Spatial orientation and direction are core areas of human and animal thinking. But, unlike animals, human populations vary considerably in their spatial thinking. Revealing that these differences correlate with language (which is probably mostly responsible for the different cognitive styles), this book includes many cross-cultural studies investigating spatial memory, reasoning, types of gesture and wayfinding abilities. It explains the relationship between language and cognition and cross-cultural differences in thinking to students of language and the cognitive sciences.

About the Author

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).