Language, Mind, and Culture: A Practical Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-10-12
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195187202
ISBN-13: 9780195187205
How do we make sense of our experience? In order to understand how we construct meaning, the varied and complex relationships among language, mind, and culture need to be understood. While cognitive linguists typically study the cognitive aspects of language, and linguistic anthropologists typically study language and culture, Language, Mind, and Culture is the first book to combine all three and provide an account of meaning-making in language and culture by examining the many cognitive operations in this process. In addition to providing a comprehensive theory of how we can account for mean...