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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

Preliminary Material /S. Blackburn -- Chapter One. Introduction /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Two. Apatanis And Their Valley /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Three. The Subu Heniin Text /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Four. The Murung Festival /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Five. The Nyibu Performer /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Six. The Subu Heniin In Translation /S. Blackburn -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions And The Future /S. Blackburn -- Appendix A. Outline Of Murung Events /S. Blackburn -- Appendix B. Number Of Murungs, 1944/1945–2009 /S. Blackburn -- Appendix C. Sacrificial Shares For Spirits And Humans /S. Blackburn -- Appendix D. Transcription Of The Subu Heniin /S. Blackburn -- Appendix E. Mudan Pai's Life-History /S. Blackburn -- Appendix F. Feasts Of Merit In The Extended Eastern Himalayas /S. Blackburn -- Bibliography /S. Blackburn -- Index /S. Blackburn.