Development of Geocentric Spatial Language and Cognition: An Eco-Cultural Perspective

by Ramesh Chandra Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen

Book Overview

Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ('put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic coordinates ('put the knife to the east, and the fork to the west'). How do children learn to use geocentric language? And why do geocentric spatial references sound strange in English when they are standard practice in other languages?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110741248X
• ISBN13: 9781107412484
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"