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Language, space, and social relationships, a foundational cultural model in Polynesia, Giovanni Bennardo

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Language, space, and social relationships

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Giovanni Bennardo

Language, culture, and cognition, 9Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

a foundational cultural model in Polynesia

The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of enquiry. This book discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on the results of a fieldwork project carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga in Polynesia. It challenges some existing assumptions in linguistics, cognitive anthropology and cognitive science and proposes a new foundational cultural model, 'radiality', to show how space, time and social relationships are expressed both linguistically and cognitively. A foundational cultural model is knowledge that is repeated in several domains and shared within a cultural homogeneous group. These knowledge structures are lenses through which we interpret the world and guide our behaviour. The book will be welcomed by researchers and students working within the fields of psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cognitive science.--, Provided by publisher

A fofundational cultural model in Tongan language, culture, and social relationships -- The kingdom of Tonga : country, people, and language -- Space in Tongan language, culture, and cognition -- Radiality -- Radiality in social relationships

Language, Space, & Social Relationships