Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind

Cultural, Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives in Cognitive Linguistics
approx. x, 180 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-34904-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

Reihe: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sinha, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

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.