What is it about?
In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, the author presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.
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Why is it important?
This book collects together some of the most important pioneering ideas and findings of the author in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of social and cultural approaches in cognitive linguistics.
Perspectives
I hope this little book will provoke colleagues and students to reflect on their own assumptions about language and mind, and to explore the insights than can be gained and shared by doing interdisciplinary research.
Professor Chris Sinha
University of East Anglia
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This page is a summary of: Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind, August 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004349094.
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