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Publications:

 

               Books:

 

editor:                   Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind. Canberra, Australia:

refereed                Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.

                              July, 2002

 

author:                  Language, Cognition and Social Relationships: A foundational Cultural Model in

refereed                Polynesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

(forthcoming)      Contracted Date of Publication 2008

 

               Monographs:

 

author:                  “A Conceptual Analysis of Tongan Spatial Nouns: From Grammar to Mind.”

refereed                Languages of the World, 12. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa,

February, 2000

 

author:                  “Towards a Computational Approach to Spatial Cognition: An Investigation of Relevant Computations in the Visual System and the Linguistic System.” Cognitive Science Technical Report, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute

May, 1993

 

 

Articles in Journals:

 

author                   Metaphors in Tongan Linguistic Production about Social Relationships: Ofa “Love” is Giving.” Anthropological Linguistics

(submitted, under review)

author                   Radiality in Tongan Linguistic Production about Social Relationships.” American Anthropology

(submitted, under review)

 

author                   “Influence Structures in a Tongan Village: ‘Every Villager is not the same!’ ” Connections

(submitted, under review)

 

co-author              “Cognition, Algebra, and Culture in the Tongan Kinship Terminology.” Cognition and

refereed                Culture. (with Dwight Read, UCLA)

(to appear in February 2007)

 

co-author              “The Tongan Kinship Terminology: Insights from an Algebraic Analysis.” Mathematical

refereed                Anthropology and Cultural Theory, 2,1:1-51. http://www.mathematicalanthropology.org/ (with Dwight Read, UCLA) December, 2005

 

co-author:            “Three Innovative Research Tools to Store, Visualize, and Analyze Data in and from the

refereed                Field.” Field Methods, 16, 4:396:413. (with Kurt Schultz) October, 2004

 

co-author:            “A Computational Approach to the Cognition of Space and its Linguistic Expressions.”

refereed                Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory, 1, 2:1-83.(with F. K. Lehman) June, 2003

 

co-author:            “Constructing the Three-Dimensional World of Speech Events.” Journal of Linguistic

refereed                Anthropology. 13, 1:98-119. (with Kurt Schultz) April, 2003

 

author                   "Map Drawing in Tonga, Polynesia: Accessing Mental Representations of Space,"

refereed                Field Methods, 14, 4:390-417. November, 2002

 

author                   "Cognitive Semantics, Typology, and Culture as a Cognitive System: The Work of

                              Leonard Talmy," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 12,1:pp. 88-98. June, 2002

 

author:                  “Language and Space in Tonga: The Front of the House is Where the Chief Sits!”

refereed                Anthropological Linguistics, 42, 4:499-544. December, 2000

 

author:                  "Possessive Markers in Tongan: A Conceptual Approach." In Steven R. Fischer (Ed.).

                              Possessive Markers in Central Pacific Languages, special issue of Language Typology and Universals, Berlin 53 (2000) 3/4:269-280. November, 2000

 

author:                  “The Conceptual Content of Tongan Directionals: Mental Representations of Space in Tongan.” In Rongorongo Studies, 9, 2:39-61. Auckland, New Zealand: The Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures. October, 1999

 

Book Chapters:

 

author:                  “Spatial Frames of Reference for Temporal Relations: A Conceptual Analysis in English,

refereed                German, and Tongan.” In Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli (Eds.). Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pp. 220-225. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. (with Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller) August, 2005

 

author:                  “Culture and Mind: Cultural Models in Cognition.” In Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou,

refereed                and Monica Bucciarelli (Eds.). Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. p. 23. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. August, 2005

 

author                   “Linguistic Relativity and Spatial Language.” UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support

refereed                Systems (EOLSS). EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK. [http://www.eolss.net] March, 2005

 

author:                  “Linguistic Untranslatability vs. Conceptual Nesting of Frames of Reference.” In Kenneth

refereed                Forbus, Dedre Gentner, and Terry Regier (Eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pp. 102-107. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. August, 2004

 

author:                  “Language, Mind, and Culture: From Linguistic Relativity to Representational

refereed                Modularity.” In Marie Banich and Molly A. Mack (Eds.) Mind, Brain, and Language: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. pp. 23-60. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. April, 2003

 

author:                  “Mental Images of the Familiar: Cultural Strategies of Spatial Representations in Tonga.”

refereed                In Bennardo, G. (Ed.), Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind, pp. 159-177. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University. July, 2002

 

author:                  Antropologia e Scienza Cognitiva: L'Etnografia come Percorso Obbligato per gli Studi Cognitivi.” [Anthropology and Cognitive Science: Ethnography as an Unavoidable Path for Cognitive Studies]. In Lorenzo Brutti and Anna Paini (Eds.), La Terra dei miei Sogni: Esperienze di Ricerca sul Campo in Oceania [The Land of my Dreams: Experiences of Fieldwork in Oceania], pp. 180-203. Roma: Meltemi Editore April, 2002

 

author:                  “The Kingdom of Tonga.”  In Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (Eds),

refereed                Countries and Their Cultures, Under the Auspices of the Human Relations Area Files, Vol. 4, pp. 2231-2237. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. May 2001

 

author:                  “A Conceptual Approach to Possession: Space and Possessives in Tongan.” In Steven R.

                              Fischer and Wolfgang B. Sperlich (Eds.), Leo Pasifika: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Niue, South Pacific, 5th-9th July, 1999, pp. 44-59. Monograph Series of the IPLL, Vol. 2. Auckland, New Zealand: IPLL. July, 2000

 

               Book Reviews:

 

reviewer:              A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning  by Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Anthropology and Humanism, 31,2:213-214, December, 2006

 

reviewer:              The Language Revolution by David Crystal, Cambridge: Polity Press. In American

                              Anthropology, 107, 3: 516-517. September, 2005

 

reviewer:              Critical Essays: Cultural Perspective from the South Seas by ‘I. Futa Helu, Canberra, Australia: The Journal of Pacific History. In Pacific Affairs, 73, 3. October, 2000

 

reviewer:              Linguistic Anthropology by Alessandro Duranti, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In American Anthropology. 100, 3: 798-9. September, 1998

 

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