Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 414 pages
- Published by: Cambridge University Press April 14, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0521011965
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521011969
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
"A fundamental part of this new-Whorfian movement has been Stephen Levinson's thinking about spatial language and cognition. It is valuable to have most of his arguments and data gathered together in this thought-provoking book."
-Nora S. Newcombe, Human Development
"Levinson's book will certainly stand as a textbook in the study of the relationship between language and cognition, and is rich and challenging readingThose with an interest in the issue of linguistic variation will find an very well-documented and well-argued presentation of the actual variation in the domain of spatial reference."
-Ingjerd Hoem, Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History, The Kon-Tiki Museum, Anthropological Linguistics
Product Description
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.
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