 Giovanni
Bennardo
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1996
Associate
Professor
Professor Bennardo's area of specialization is linguistic and cognitive
anthropology. His primary geographic focus is Oceania, in particular,
Western Polynesia, the Kingdom of Tonga, where he conducted extensive
fieldwork. Research and interests are interdisciplinary; he brings
together linguistic, psychological, and anthropological perspectives
to cognitive science. His doctoral and current research focuses
on the linguistic, cognitive, and cultural representations of spatial
relationships. His specific interest is the investigation of intra-modular
and inter-modular conceptual structures. He's taught at UCLA, U.
of Missouri, Columbia, College of Charleston, South Carolina. He
currently teaches courses in linguistic anthropology, cognitive
anthropology, and cognitive science.
Selected Publications
"The Tongan Kinship Terminology: Insights from an Algebraic
Analysis." Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory, 2,1:1-51.
http://www.mathematicalanthropology.org/ (with Dwight Read, UCLA)
2005.
"Linguistic Relativity and Spatial Language." UNESCO
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). EOLSS Publishers,
Oxford, UK. [http://www.eolss.net] 2005.
"Spatial Frames of Reference for Temporal Relations: A Conceptual
Analysis in English, 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) 2005.
"Culture and Mind: Cultural Models in Cognition." In
Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and Monica Bucciarelli (Eds.).
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society. p. 23. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2005.
"Three Innovative Research Tools to Store, Visualize, and
Analyze Data in and from the Field." Field Methods,
16, 4:396:413. (with Kurt Schultz) 2004.
"Linguistic Untranslatability vs. Conceptual Nesting of Frames
of Reference." In Kenneth 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. 2004.
"A Computational Approach to the Cognition of Space and its
Linguistic Expressions." Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural
Theory, 1, 2:1-83. (with F. K. Lehman) 2003.
"Constructing the Three-Dimensional World of Speech Events."
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 13, 1:98-119 (with Kurt
Schultz) 2003.
"Language, Mind, and Culture: From Linguistic Relativity to
Representational Modularity." In Marie Banich and Molly A.
Mack (Eds.) Mind, Brain, and Language: Multidisciplinary Perspectives.
pp. 23-60. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2003.
Representing Space in Oceania: Culture in Language and Mind
(editor). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National
University. 2002.
"Map Drawing in Tonga, Polynesia: Accessing Mental Representations
of Space." Field Methods, 14, 4:390-417. 2002.
"A Conceptual Analysis of Tongan Spatial Nouns: From Grammar
to Mind." Languages of the World, 12. Munich, Germany:
Lincom Europa. 2000.
"Language and Space in Tonga: The Front of the House is Where
the Chief Sits!" Anthropological Linguistics, 42, 4:499-544.
2000.
"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. 2000.
"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. 1999.
Contact Information:
Website: http://www3.niu.edu/~t20gxb1/index.htm
Dr. Giovanni Bennardo
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: 815-753-8574
Fax: 815-753-7027
Email: bennardo@niu.edu
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