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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

Sprogforum 65 sAetter fokus pa det komplekse begreb literacy og belyser resultaterne af tre artiers udvikling i synet pa lAesning og skrivning fra at vAere en individuel fAerdighed til at vAere led i andre sociale, erkendelsesmAessige og lAeringsmAessige sammenhAenge og praksisser. Skiftet har haft gennemgribende praktiske konsekvenser for bade forskning og undervisning, og begrebet forpligter i forhold til synet pa sprog, kultur og lAering. I Sprogforum 65 diskuterer forfatterne literacy i eksempler, der spAender bredt fra skriveridentitet og skrivepraktikker over digital etik og kritisk mediebevidsthed til borns semiotiske erfaringer i spil som Minecraft. Forhabningen er at bidrage til den sprogligt-kommunikative literacy-praksis i alle former for uddannelse og pa alle niveauer

The purpose of this thesis is to develop knowledge about what responsible leadership is, as well as develop a theoretical model for responsible leadership in the perspective of caring science. The study takes as its point of departure the research tradition in caring science developed by Katie Eriksson and her colleagues at Åbo Akademi University in Vasa. The overarching methodological approach is Gadamer's (2004) hermeneutic philosophy. The scientific interest is mainly theoretical. The theory model is 'tested' in a clinical context in two hospitals. This implied that leaders were taught about the developed model. Thereafter the leaders 'translated' it into their own language and gave it meaning in their clinical context. The clinical part of the study can be regarded as a moment of application research in the sense of hermeneutic. Responsible leadership is treated in this thesis as aas a part of human existence and the model is not explicitly associated with leadership in organizations.