Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

Spatial orientation and direction are core areas of human and animal thinking. But, unlike animals, human populations vary considerably in their spatial thinking. Revealing that these differences correlate with language (which is probably mostly responsible for the different cognitive styles), this book includes many cross-cultural studies investigating spatial memory, reasoning, types of gesture and wayfinding abilities. It explains the relationship between language and cognition and cross-cultural differences in thinking to students of language and the cognitive sciences.

Author: Stephen C. Levinson,Max Planck Institut Fur Psycholinguistik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/20/2003
Pages: 414
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780521812627

About the Author
Levinson, Stephen C.: - Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. His publications include Pragmatics (Cambridge, 1983), Politeness (co-author Cambridge, 1987), Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (co-editor, Cambridge, 1996), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development (co-editor, Cambridge, 2001) and Presumptive Meaning (2001).

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