Friday, February 15, 2013
Room 300 (Hynes Convention Center)
Analyses of linguistic data can take one inside the mind and the results of experimental tasks allow one to look around. Both data are necessary when searching for community wide shared mental models, i.e., cultural models. Based on the domain of space, I present the long process of discovery of a Polynesian cultural model. Ethnographic data is the third type of data strictly needed in this enterprise. Thus, linguistics, anthropology, and cognitive science find a necessary congruence.