Language and Conceptualization

by Edited by Jan Nuyts , Eric Pederson

• ISBN13: 9780521774819
• ISBN10: 0521774810
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities or even individuals? Of crucial importance in the attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of human cognition, these remain among the most difficult questions in the cognitive sciences. This volume brings together ten new contributions from leading scholars working in a wide cross section of disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Overview: on the relationship between language and conceptualization	1	(12)
Eric Pederson
Jan Nuyts
From outer to inner space: linguistic categories and non-linguistic thinking	13	(33)
Stephen C. Levinson
Spatial operations in deixis, cognition, and culture: where to orient oneself in Belhare	46	(38)
Balthasar Bickel
Remote worlds: the conceptual representation of linguistic would	84	(32)
Paul Werth
Role and individual interpretations of change predicates	116	(21)
Eve Sweetser
Changing place in English and German: language-specific preferences in the conceptualization of spatial relations	137	(25)
Mary Carroll
Mapping conceptual representations into linguistic representations: the role of attention in grammar	162	(28)
Russell S. Tomlin
Growth points cross-linguistically	190	(23)
David McNeill
On the modularity of sentence processing: semantical generality and the language of thought	213	(16)
Jay David Atlas
The contextual basis of cognitive semantics	229	(24)
Ronald W. Langacker
The cognitive foundations of pragmatic principles: implications for theories of linguistic and cognitive representation	253	(19)
Edward A. Robinson
Subject Index	272	(6)
Index of names	278