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Language, Cognition and Space
Evans
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Description for Language, Cognition and Space
Hardcover. Features articles that investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. Editor(s): Evans, Vyvyan; Chilton, Paul. Series: Advances in Cognitive Linguistics. Num Pages: 672 pages, 156 figures. BIC Classification: CFD; JMAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1144.
Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store 'cognitive maps' for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the human ability for spatial representation apparently results in rich, creative and sometimes ... Read more
Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store 'cognitive maps' for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the human ability for spatial representation apparently results in rich, creative and sometimes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Cognitive Linguistics
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845532529
SKU
V9781845532529
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About Evans
Vyvyan Evans is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the department of Linguistics, and the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS) at the University of Sussex. He has written and edited a number of books on cognitive linguistics including: The Semantics of English Prepositions (with Andrea Tyler), The Structure of Time, Cognitive Linguistics (with Melanie Green), and The Cognitive ... Read more
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