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.

在本跨学科讲座系列中，克里斯·辛哈概述了从儿童游戏中的语言到时间的文化认知、再到哲学与语言相对主义的众多主题。人类发展进程中进化与个体时间尺度的交织是讲座统一的主题核心，同样，语言与认知的根基性文化属性亦然。克里斯·辛哈从文化、比较与发展等视角，探讨了认知语言学中的熟识议题，诸如空间语义学与概念融合。他还讨论了认知语言学中关键概念的心理学根源，并阐述了语言进化的生物文化途径。