Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind
Cultural, Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives in Cognitive Linguistics
Published on 5. October 2017
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-90-04-34904-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children's play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition.
Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.
Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.
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Series
Edition
approx. x, 180 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 s/w Tabellen
5 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
409 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-34904-9 (9789004349049)
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Chris Sinha (PhD 1988, University of Utrecht) is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science at Hunan University. He is Past President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association and of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association.