Ten lectures on language, culture and mind : : cultural, developmental and evolutionary perspectives in cognitive linguistics / / by Chris Sinha.

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 dev...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (367 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Language, Culture and Mind: Independence or Interdependence?
  • The Psychological Roots of Cognitive Linguistics—and Beyond
  • Meaning, Representation, Conceptualization
  • From Signal to Symbol to System: The Emergence of Language
  • Patterns of Mapping: Distributed Spatial Semantics, Cognitive Typology and Language Development
  • Concept, Context and Extended Embodiment: Spatial Language and Cognitive Development
  • Space, Time, Semiosis and Cognitive Artefacts: Evidence from an Amazonian Culture and Language
  • Participation, Practice and Cultural Learning: Children’s Play as Acts of Meaning
  • Language as a Biocultural Niche and Social Institution
  • Beyond Subjectivism and Objectivism: Realism, Relativism and Representation
  • Important Resources for Cognitive Linguistics
  • Appendix.