Jan Nuyts & Eric Pederson (eds.), Language and conceptualization. (Language, culture and cognition series, 1.) Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 281. Hb $59.95.

Abstract

This book is the first in a series, edited by Stephen Levinson, which (according to the dust jacket) “focuses on the role that language, in both its universal psychological aspects and its variable cultural aspects, plays in human cognition ... [as well as] the relation of speech production and comprehension to other kinds of behavior in cultural context.” Each chapter focuses on one point of contact between linguistic and conceptual representation. Since the goal of the series is of central concern to readers of LiS, the first book in the series should be especially interesting, as a harbinger of relevant studies to come.