Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind : Cultural, Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives in Cognitive Linguistics.

Intro -- Contents -- Note on Supplementary Material -- Preface -- Preface by the Author -- About the Author -- Lecture 1 Language, Culture and Mind: Independence or Interdependence? -- Lecture 2 The Psychological Roots of Cognitive Linguistics-and Beyond -- Lecture 3 Meaning, Representation, Conceptualization -- Lecture 4 From Signal to Symbol to System: The Emergence of Language -- Lecture 5 Patterns of Mapping: Distributed Spatial Semantics, Cognitive Typology and Language Development -- Lecture 6 Concept, Context and Extended Embodiment: Spatial Language and Cognitive Development -- Lecture 7 Space, Time, Semiosis and Cognitive Artefacts: Evidence from an Amazonian Culture and Language -- Lecture 8 Participation, Practice and Cultural Learning: Children's Play as Acts of Meaning -- Lecture 9 Language as a Biocultural Niche and Social Institution -- Lecture 10 Beyond Subjectivism and Objectivism: Realism, Relativism and Representation -- Important Resources for Cognitive Linguistics -- Appendix.

In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents a uniquely cultural, developmental and evolutionary approach to cognitive linguistics. Topics range from language in children's play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism.

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