[Sigcr-l] Reading about how culture/language affects knowledge representation

[Allyson Carlyle]

Hi Dagobert,
I like this chapter a lot, in:

Nesbitt, Richard E. (2003). The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why. New York: The Free Press. Chapter 6: "Is the World Made Up of Nouns or Verbs?" pp. 137-163.

One of the nice things about it is that it reports on research.  I think some people like other chapters, but I think Chap. 6 is especially relevant KO/knowledge representation.
Allyson

Allyson Carlyle
Associate Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Program
Information School
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2840

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Subject: [Sigcr-l] Reading about how culture/language affects knowledge representation

A beginning student asked me

Could you recommend a reading about how culture/language affects 
knowledge representation?

Does anyone know of the one or two articles that introduce this 
problem, or a bibliography?  A good treatment of cultural focus (or 
bias) in classifications, such as DDC or the Colon Classification, 
would certainly fit in here.

Dagobert


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