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Author: Paul Chilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1107010136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.
Author: Daniel R. Montello
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2014-11-21
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0262028298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe current "spatial turn" in many disciplines reflects an emerging scholarly interest in space and spatiality as central components in understanding the natural and cultural worlds. In Space in Mind, leading researchers from a range of disciplines examine the implications of research on spatial thinking and reasoning for education and learning. Their contributions suggest ways in which recent work in such fields as spatial cognition, geographic information systems, linguistics, artifical intelligence, architecture, and data visualization can inform spatial approaches to learning and education. After addressing the conceptual foundations of spatial thinking for education and learning, the book considers visualization, both external (for example, diagrams and maps) and internal (imagery and other mental spatial representations); embodied cognition and spatial understanding; and the development of specific spatial curricula and literacies. -- from dust jacket.
Author: Barbara Tversky
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0465093078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place.
Author: Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-02-06
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0521888425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf language influences the way we think, does it mean that bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? Interweaving cutting edge research, case studies and personal experience, this book will take you on a quest to unlock the mysteries of the bilingual mind.
Author: Ralph Metzner
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781587901720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetzner relates his distillation of almost five decades of research, psychotherapy, shamanic, and yogic practices, as well as teaching experience, on the role of changing states of consciousness in psychological health and spiritual growth.
Author: I. Aranyosi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1137280328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book offers a novel approach to the idea of divinity in guise of a philosophical doctrine called 'Logical Pantheism', according to which the only way to establish the existence of God undeniably is by equating God with Logical Space.
Author: Robert E. L. Masters
Publisher: Quest Books
Published: 1998-12-25
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780835607537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of mental exercises designed for group participation focuses on the roles of reasoning and imagination in achieving sensory perception
Author: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9027265364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.
Author: Dedre Gentner
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003-03-14
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780262571630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently. Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought, recent theoretical and methodological advances in cognitive science have given the question new life. Research in linguistics and linguistic anthropology has revealed striking differences in cross-linguistic semantic patterns, and cognitive psychology has developed subtle techniques for studying how people represent and remember experience. It is now possible to test predictions about how a given language influences the thinking of its speakers. Language in Mind includes contributions from both skeptics and believers and from a range of fields. It contains work in cognitive psychology, cognitive development, linguistics, anthropology, and animal cognition. The topics discussed include space, number, motion, gender, theory of mind, thematic roles, and the ontological distinction between objects and substances. Contributors Melissa Bowerman, Eve Clark, Jill de Villiers, Peter de Villiers, Giyoo Hatano, Stan Kuczaj, Barbara Landau, Stephen Levinson, John Lucy, Barbara Malt, Dan Slobin, Steven Sloman, Elizabeth Spelke, and Michael Tomasello
Author: Wolfram Schommers
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 1994-10-10
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9814501743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn principle, the elements of space and time cannot be measured. Therefore, the following question arises: How are reality and space-time related to each other? In this book, it is argued on the basis of many facts that reality is not embedded but projected onto space and time. We can never make statements about the actual reality outside (basic reality), but we can “only” form pictures of it. These are pictures of the same reality on different levels. From this point of view, the “hard” objects (matter) and the products of the mind are similar in character.
