Time and quantification in cognition communication and cultural practice
This project investigates the relationship between time and number in human cognition, focusing on how this relationship is culturally and linguistically configured. This area remains under-researched in traditional societies spe...
ver más
¿Tienes un proyecto y buscas un partner? Gracias a nuestro motor inteligente podemos recomendarte los mejores socios y ponerte en contacto con ellos. Te lo explicamos en este video
Proyectos interesantes
VARIKIN
Cultural Evolution of Kinship Diversity Variation in Langua...
1M€
Cerrado
PCIN-2015-165-C02-02
BILINGUISMO, MENTE Y CEREBRO: UN PROGRAMA INTERDICIPLINAR EN...
70K€
Cerrado
FWGW
Framing the World Genre as Worldview
161K€
Cerrado
PCIN-2015-165-C02-01
BILINGUISMO, MENTE Y CEREBRO: UN PROGRAMA INTERDICIPLINAR EN...
130K€
Cerrado
FFI2010-18358
ORGANIZACION SOCIOCOGNITIVA DEL SIGNIFICADO DE "TIEMPO": DIN...
40K€
Cerrado
CAMRIP
Cognitive Aspects of Mithraic Rituals in Pannonia
Cerrado
Información proyecto TINCULT
Duración del proyecto: 41 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2021-04-07
Fecha Fin: 2024-10-03
Líder del proyecto
HOGSKULEN PA VESTLANDET
No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Presupuesto del proyecto
214K€
Fecha límite de participación
Sin fecha límite de participación.
Descripción del proyecto
This project investigates the relationship between time and number in human cognition, focusing on how this relationship is culturally and linguistically configured. This area remains under-researched in traditional societies speaking endangered languages. The experienced researcher will carry out a field-based investigation in three indigenous minority communities of Brazil. The languages of these communities have small number systems with less than five basic numerals, have no metric time systems in which time is quantified as clock or calendar time, and use exclusively event-based time intervals, in which the time interval is indexed to an event or activity. The cognitive domains of time and number both manifest cross-cultural and cross-linguistic differences and their spatialisation in thought, language and familiar cultural artefacts is a key topic in cognitive science. Cultural artefacts for time reckoning (e.g. calendars, clocks) are numerically as well as spatially organised. The project will look at the role of number in event-based time reckoning, analysing it not only in language but also in gestural communication. Speakers do not use spatial metaphors for past and future – instead, they use embodied psychological metaphors such as REMEMBERING IS SEEING. This suggests that the linguistic spatialisation of time is a consequence of cultural practices and artefacts. The project combines methods employing linguistic and non-linguistic experimental tasks, gesture analysis and ethnographic observation. As well as being highly innovative in its scientific impact in the interdisciplinary field of language, cognition and culture, it will generate information to be used in indigenous education and language/culture revitalisation and is important for understanding human-environment relations in traditional non-Western societies. The project findings will be communicated through scientific articles, and to wider audiences through the production of a documentary.