Language, Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions (Advances in Cognitive Linguistics)
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 ab...
ISBN(s)
1845535014, 9781845535018
