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Date: 05-Dec-2011
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought: Schubert, Maass (Eds)


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From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought: Schubert, Maass (Eds)

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Title: Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought 
Series Title: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 18  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110254303-1 


Editor: Thomas W. Schubert
Editor: Anne Maass

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110254310 Pages: 353 Price: Europe EURO 119.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110254303 Pages: 353 Price: Europe EURO 119.95


Abstract:

Space provides the stage for our social lives - social thought evolved and 
developed in a constant interaction with space. The volume demonstrates 
how this has led to an astonishing intertwining of spatial and social thought.

For the first time, research on language comprehension, metaphors, priming, 
spatial perception, face perception, art history and other fields is brought 
together to provide an integrative view. This overview confirms that often, 
metaphors reveal a deeper truth about how our mind uses spatial information 
to represent social concepts. Yet, the evidence also goes beyond this 
insight, showing for instance how flexible our mind operates with spatial 
metaphors, how the peculiarities of our bodies determine the way we assign 
meaning to space, and how the asymmetry of our brain influences spatial and 
face perception. Finally, it is revealed that also how we write language - from 
left to right or from right to left - shapes how we perceive, interpret, and 
produce horizontal movement and order. The evidence ranges from linguistics 
to social and spatial perception to neuropsychology, seamlessly integrating 
such diverse findings as speed in word comprehension, children's depictions 
of abstract concepts, estimates of the steepness of hills, and archival 
research on how often Homer Simpson is depicted left or right of Marge.

The chapters in this book offer a topology of social cognition and explore the 
pivotal role language plays in creating links between spatial and social 
thought. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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