The Geometry of Choice

Language, Culture, and Education
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-78657-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decisionmaking process, using the metaphor of CHOICE as CUBE. The areas of key interest are language, culture, and education as forms of social organization. This book addresses issues relevant to a number of fields, including social epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, philosophy, culture and education studies, and will be of interest to readers in these and related disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ku¿niak, Marek

Kuzniak, Marek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Choice and Decision Research.- Chapter 3: Choice CUBE.- Chapter 4: Language, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 5: CUBE Effects in Language.- Chapter 6: Culture, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 7: CUBE Effects in Culture.- Chapter 8: Education, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 9: CUBE Effects in Education.- Chapter 10: General Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Marek Kuzniak is a Professor of Linguistics at Wroclaw University, Poland. He is the author of books and articles in cognitive linguistics, legal translation, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. He is a member of numerous Polish and international associations, including the Polish Linguistic Association, Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Linguistic Society of America, and Societas Linguistica Europaea.