The transcriptions of lectures on cognitive linguistics that Sinha delivered in Beijing in May 2008 lack extensive references, but visual and audio aspects of the lectures are available online. Among the topics are the psychological roots of cognitive linguistics--and beyond; from signal to symbol to system: the emergence of language; concept, context, and extended embodiment: spatial language and cognitive development; space, time, semiosis, and cognitive artefacts: evidence from an Amazonian culture and language; and beyond subjectivism and objectivism: realism; relativism, and representation. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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.
