Space in language and cognition : explorations in cognitive diversity /
"Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This book shows that even in a core cognitive domain, such as spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Language, culture, and cognition ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The intellectual background: two millennia of Western ideas about spatial thinking
- 2. Frames of reference
- 3. Linguistic diversity
- 4. Absolute minds: glimpses into two cultures
- 5. Diversity in mind: methods and results from a cross-linguistic sample
- 6. Beyond language: frames of reference in wayfinding and pointing
- 7. Language and thought.