Language, Space, and Social Relationships: A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia (Language Culture and Cognition)

✍ Scribed by Giovanni Bennardo

Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 397
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

📁 Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition

✍ Luna Filipovi?; Kasia M. Jaszczolt 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing 🌐 English

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety

Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Con

📁 Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds (Language Culture and Cognition)

✍ Paul Kockelman 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expres

Language and Social Relations (Studies i

📁 Language and Social Relations (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

✍ Asif Agha 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinating study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, a

Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and c

📁 Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use

✍ Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson, Monika Reif 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by inter

Language and Emotion (Studies in the Soc

📁 Language and Emotion (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

✍ James M. Wilce 📂 Library 📅 2009 🌐 English

Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. The book demonstrates tha

Language, Discourse and Power in African

📁 Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

✍ Marcyliena Morgan 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

African American language is central to the teaching of linguistics and language in the United States, and this book covers the entire field--grammar, speech, and verbal genres. It also reveals the various historical strands that must be identified in order to understand the development of African A