Language and Gesture

David McNeill

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 2
• This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropo... Lees meer

Questions

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 12
• The view that questions are 'requests for missing information' is too simple when language use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when ... Lees meer

Drawn from the Ground

Jennifer Green

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 13
• Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing.... Lees meer

Language, Space, and Social Relationships

Giovanni Bennardo

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 9
• The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding... Lees meer

Space in Language and Cognition

Stephen C Levinson

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 5
• Spatial orientation and direction are core areas of human and animal thinking. But, unlike animals, human populations vary considerably in their spati... Lees meer

Event Representation in Language and Cognition

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 11
• Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into th... Lees meer

Language and Conceptualization

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 1
• To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities or even individ... Lees meer

Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 14
• Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first o... Lees meer

Drawn from the Ground

Jennifer Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 13
• Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing.... Lees meer

Systems of Nominal Classification

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 4
• This volume addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification. Leading s... Lees meer

Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 14
• Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first o... Lees meer

Person Reference in Interaction

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 7
• How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name ('Robert Smit... Lees meer

Language and Conceptualization

Nuyts Jan

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 1
• To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities or even individ... Lees meer

Grammars of Space

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 6
• Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most ... Lees meer

Questions

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 12
• The view that questions are 'requests for missing information' is too simple when language use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when ... Lees meer

The Anatomy of Meaning

N J Enfield

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 8
• How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible ... Lees meer

Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development

Melissa Bowerman, Stephen C Levinson

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 3
• Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evo... Lees meer

Person Reference in Interaction

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 7
• How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name ('Robert Smit... Lees meer

Space in Language and Cognition

Stephen C Levinson, Max Planck Institut Fur Psycholinguistik

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 5
• Spatial orientation and direction are core areas of human and animal thinking. But, unlike animals, human populations vary considerably in their spati... Lees meer

Grammars of Space

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 6
• Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most ... Lees meer

Language and Gesture

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 2
• This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropo... Lees meer

Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 3
• Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evo... Lees meer

Event Representation in Language and Cognition

• Hardcover | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 11
• Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. Empirical research into th... Lees meer

Systems of Nominal Classification

• Paperback | Engels | Language Culture and Cognition | nr. 4
• This volume addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification. Leading s... Lees meer