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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:22:08
From: Stephanie Paalvast [paalvast at brill.com]
Subject: The Leopard's Spots: Dimmendaal

 


Title: The Leopard's Spots 
Subtitle: Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture 
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/leopards-spots 


Author: Gerrit J Dimmendaal

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004222441 Pages: 238 Price: Europe EURO 99
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004222441 Pages: 238 Price: U.S. $ 128


Abstract:

In "The Leopard’s Spots", Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction
between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special
focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language. Such
constructions are constrained by our cognitive system, but leave lots of space
for culture-specific interpretations and thereby for tremendous typological
diversity between languages. This variation reflects the adaptive nature of
human language in the same way that the spots of the leopard reflect selective
advantages for its natural habitat. But whereas science has essentially one
explanation for the rosettes of the leopard, the non-scientific mind may
attach meaning to his or her cultural environment by way of language through a
plethora of strategies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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