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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: Paul Chilton
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781316007921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.
Author: Paul Anthony Chilton
Publisher:
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781316003428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.
Author: Barbara Tversky
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 384
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: 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: Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-10-12
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780199774890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do we make sense of our experience? In order to understand how we construct meaning, the varied and complex relationships among language, mind, and culture need to be understood. While cognitive linguists typically study the cognitive aspects of language, and linguistic anthropologists typically study language and culture, Language, Mind, and Culture is the first book to combine all three and provide an account of meaning-making in language and culture by examining the many cognitive operations in this process. In addition to providing a comprehensive theory of how we can account for meaning making, Language, Mind, and Culture is a textbook for anyone interested in the fascinating issues surrounding the relationship between language, mind, and culture. Further, the book is also a "practical" introduction: most of the chapters include exercises that help the student understand the theoretical issues. No prior knowledge of linguistics is assumed, and the material is accessible and useful to students in a variety of other disciplines, such as anthropology, English, sociology, philosophy, psychology, communication, rhetoric, and others. Language, Mind, and Culture helps us make sense of not only linguistic meaning but also of some of the important personal and social issues we encounter in our lives as members of particular cultures and as human beings.
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: 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: 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: 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.
