The Geometry of Choice

This book offers a cognitive-semantic insight into the roots of the human decisionmaking process, using the metaphor of CHOICE as CUBE. The areas of key interest are language, culture, and education as forms of social organization. This book addresses issues relevant to a number of fields, including social epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, philosophy, culture and education studies, and will be of interest to readers in these and related disciplines.

Combines findings from linguistics with disciplines such as philosophy, sociology and psychologyOffers a cognitive exploration of the roots of human decision-making and everyday actionsArgues for the CUBIC architecture as foundational of human individual and collective activity

Autorentext

Marek Kuzniak is a Professor of Linguistics at Wroclaw University, Poland. He is the author of books and articles in cognitive linguistics, legal translation, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. He is a member of numerous Polish and international associations, including the Polish Linguistic Association, Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Linguistic Society of America, and Societas Linguistica Europaea.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Choice and Decision Research.- Chapter 3: Choice CUBE.- Chapter 4: Language, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 5: CUBE Effects in Language.- Chapter 6: Culture, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 7: CUBE Effects in Culture.- Chapter 8: Education, Geometry and Choice.- Chapter 9: CUBE Effects in Education.- Chapter 10: General Conclusions.