Book review of 'Language, space, and social relationships : foundational cultural model in Polynesia.' by Giovanni Bennardo, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

摘要

In this book, Giovanni Bennardo explains the foundational cultural model of the cognitive aspects of language and socio-spatial organization in Polynesia, which is based on fieldwork having been carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga. Not only about the linguistic anthropology and the cultural model of space in Tonga, the book is also a rich description of Tongan culture, the human-nature relationship, power hierarchies, and interpersonal and social relationships.