Bücher der Reihe Language Culture and Cognition

In this book, a team of linguists, sociologists and anthropologists examine how we refer to other people in everyday conversation. Illustrated with authentic data from nine languages from the Americas to Asia to the South Pacific, it will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students interested in the relationship between language and culture.

Demonstratives with their pointing gestures are amongst the first words that children learn, and they have fascinated theorists by the combination of slender semantic content and the practical force in communication. This book is for researchers and students in linguistics, philosophy and psychology interested in demonstratives, a key anchor tying language to the world.

Demonstratives with their pointing gestures are amongst the first words that children learn, and they have fascinated theorists by the combination of slender semantic content and the practical force in communication. This book is for researchers and students in linguistics, philosophy and psychology interested in demonstratives, a key anchor tying language to the world.

Bringing together a team of formal linguists, functional linguists, discourse analysts, anthropologists, psychologists and sociolinguists, this book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes. The volume includes data from a range of languages and cultures.

Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. The book highlights the newly found evidence which indicates the imposition of boundary conditions on the structure and processing of events and how these are then interpreted by the mind.

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 will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.

In this book, a team of linguists, sociologists and anthropologists examine how we refer to other people in everyday conversation. Illustrated with authentic data from nine languages from the Americas to Asia to the South Pacific, it will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students interested in the relationship between language and culture.

Bringing together a team of formal linguists, functional linguists, discourse analysts, anthropologists, psychologists and sociolinguists, this book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes. The volume includes data from a range of languages and cultures.

Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. The book highlights the newly found evidence which indicates the imposition of boundary conditions on the structure and processing of events and how these are then interpreted by the mind.

This volume, first published in 2000, addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification. Leading scholars review the whole spectrum of nominal classification, from gender systems through to numeral classifiers, providing theoretical interpretations and empirical case studies across a variety of languages.

This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologist, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the art analyses to demonstrate that gestures are not merely an embellishment of speech but are integral parts of language itself.

To understand what others are saying, we rely on more than just words. This study examines how words combine with hand gestures and other bodily movements to create unified 'composite utterances'. It presents original case studies based on research of speakers of Lao (a language of Southeast Asia).

In this collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they uncover considerable cross-linguistic variation across this central domain, adding to debates about the innate foundations of human cognition.

In this collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they uncover considerable cross-linguistic variation across this central domain, adding to debates about the innate foundations of human cognition.

This volume, first published in 2000, addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification. Leading scholars review the whole spectrum of nominal classification, from gender systems through to numeral classifiers, providing theoretical interpretations and empirical case studies across a variety of languages.

In this 2003 book, Stephen C. Levinson uses differences between languages to explore the relation between language and thought. He shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions.

To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even individuals? This volume is one of the first attempts to tackle explicitly the issue of the relationship between linguistic and conceptual representation from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.

Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from this rapidly evolving field of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development, bringing together two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue.

To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even individuals? This volume is one of the first attempts to tackle explicitly the issue of the relationship between linguistic and conceptual representation from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.

This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologist, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the art analyses to demonstrate that gestures are not merely an embellishment of speech but are integral parts of language itself.

Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from this rapidly evolving field of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development, bringing together two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue.