Vantage Theory: A View on Language, Cognition and Categorization - Hardcover

Adam Głaz; Marnie L. Moist

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443849618 ISBN 13: 9781443849616

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The book is concerned with Vantage Theory (VT), a model of categorization proposed by the American linguist, anthropologist, and cognitive scientist, Robert E. MacLaury (1944–2004). It consists of three of his previously unpublished studies and five chapters by other authors. Vantage Theory views categorization as a process of vantage (point of view) construction by analogy to the way humans orient themselves in space-time. Originating in the domain of color, the theory was extended to cover other aspects of cognition and language. The chapters authored by MacLaury introduce the model, discuss the details of the analogy between space-time and categorization, and present four case studies. The remaining chapters present an overview of the existing literature on VT, locate the model against the broader background of psychological and cognitive research, and propose its application to novel data.

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About the Author

Adam Głaz, Assistant Professor at Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland, is interested in linguistic categorization and point of view in language and linguistics. Marnie L. Moist, Associate Professor of Psychology at Saint Francis University, USA, researches in teaching pedagogy, culture and categorization, and service-learning assessment. Elena Tribushinina, Assistant Professor at Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, the Netherlands, deals with cross-linguistic aspects of language acquisition and cognitive semantics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443849618
• ISBN 13: 9781443849616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 431
• Editor: Adam Głaz, Marnie L. Moist