Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind - Chris Sinha

In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.

在本跨学科演讲合集中，克里斯·辛哈（Chris Sinha）对多类主题展开系统综述，涵盖儿童游戏中的语言、时间的文化概念化，以及哲学与语言相对主义等内容。人类发展的演化时间尺度与个体时间尺度之间的交织互动，是贯穿本系列演讲的核心主题，而语言与认知的根本文化属性同样是核心议题之一。认知语言学（Cognitive Linguistics）中的常见议题，例如空间语义学（Spatial Semantics）与概念合成（Conceptual Blending），均从上述文化、比较与发展视角展开探讨。克里斯·辛哈还深入探讨了认知语言学核心概念的心理学根源，并系统阐述了研究语言演化的生物文化研究路径（Biocultural Approach）。