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The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of enquiry. This book discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on the results of a fieldwork project carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga in Polynesia. It challenges some existing assumptions in linguistics, cognitive anthropology and cognitive science and proposes a new foundational cultural model, 'radiality', to show how space, time and social relationships are expressed both linguistically and cognitively. A foundational cultural model is knowledge that is repeated in several domains and shared within a cultural homogeneous group. These knowledge structures are lenses through which we interpret the world and guide our behaviour. The book will be welcomed by researchers and students working within the fields of psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cognitive science

Genstande. Rum. Kroppe. I årtier har kulturforskningen fokuseret på sproglige konstruktioner og tegnenes spil. Men nu er tingene og det materielle for alvor vendt tilbage. Det kræver analyser af det materielle som dynamiske og betydningsproducerende processer, relationer og praksisser: som materialiseringer.I denne antologi stiller otte forfattere fra forskellige forskningsområder skarpt på genstandenes, rummenes og kroppenes materialiseringer ved at analysere, hvad og hvordan materialitet 'gør' og 'gøres'. Inspireret af nye materialitetsteorier og især af Actor Network Theory indkredser forfa