Language, Space, and Social Relationships (repost)
Giovanni Bennardo, "Language, Space, and Social Relationships"
2009 | ISBN: 0521883121 | 396 pages | PDF | 5 MB
2009 | ISBN: 0521883121 | 396 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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.