Christopher Sinha

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• 2024

  ArtIfacts, Symbols, and the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Niche Construction

  Sinha, C., 25 Jan 2024, Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Gontier, N., Lock, A. & Sinha, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 217-235 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Learning about, learning from, learning with – Towards a critical practice and theory of situated language sciences

  Sinha, C. & Da Silva Sinha, V., 27 Jun 2024, Language as an Ecological Phenomenon. Steffensen, S. V., Döring, M. & Cowley, S. (eds.). Bloomsbury

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Metaphor, Myth and Symbol in the Grain of Time

  Sinha, C., 25 Jan 2024, Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Oxford University Press, p. 1053-1073 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

  Sinha, C. (ed.), Lock, A. (ed.) & Gontier, N. (ed.), 25 Jan 2024, Oxford University Press. 1184 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2023

  A cognitive semantics analysis of the directional motion verbs wang 往 and lai 来 in the YiChing

  Yang, Y. & Sinha, C., 3 May 2023, In: Circulo de Linguistica Aplicada a la Comunicacion. 94, p. 303-316 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Sequential time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’

  Yang, Y., Sinha, C. & Filipovic, L., Jan 2023, In: Language Sciences. 95, 101511.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2022

  Twists and turns: Ahead of or behind the curve?

  Sinha, C., Dec 2022, In: Constructivist Foundations. 18, 1, p. 43-46 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• 2021

  Culture in language and cognition

  Sinha, C., 4 Jun 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Wen, X. & Taylor, J. R. (eds.). Routledge, p. 387-407 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  15 Citations (Scopus)
• 2020

  Embodiment, personification, identity: Metaphor and world view in a Brazilian Tupian culture and language

  de Araujo Sampaio, W. B., Da Silva Sinha, V. & Sinha, C., 2020, Language, Culture and Identity- Signs of Life. da Silva Sinha, V., Moreno-Núñez, A. & Tian, Z. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 181-202 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• North-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism?

  Grinevald, C. & Sinha, C., 30 Apr 2020, Language, Culture and Identity: Signs of Life. John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 43-61 19 p. (Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life; vol. 13).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Praxis, symbol and language: Developmental, ecological and linguistic issues

  Sinha, C., 11 Aug 2020, How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map. John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 239-255 (How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map; vol. 112).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2019

  Optional ergative marking in Tujia

  Lu, M., van de Weijer, J., Sinha, C. & Liu, Z., May 2019, In: Lingua. 223, p. 46-66 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  6 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  Praxis, symbol and language developmental, ecological and linguistic issues

  Sinha, C., 2018, In: Interaction Studies. 19, 1-2, p. 239-255 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Significado y materialidad. El lenguaje como fundamento de los artefactos

  Translated title of the contribution: Meaning and materiality. Language as the foundation of artifactsSinha, C., 2018, Semiótica, cultura y desarrollo psicológico. Moro, C. & Muller Mirza, N. (eds.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language

  Arbib, M. A., Aboitiz, F., Burkart, J. M., Corballis, M., Coudé, G., Hecht, E., Liebal, K., Myowa-Yamakoshi, M., Pustejovsky, J., Putt, S., Rossano, F., Russon, A. E., Schoenemann, P. T., Seifert, U., Semendeferi, K., Sinha, C., Stout, D., Volterra, V., Wacewicz, S. & Wilson, B., 1 Jan 2018, In: Interaction Studies. 19, 1-2, p. 370-387 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  12 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  Getting the measure of meaning

  Sinha, C., 2017, The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Dancygier, B. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 493-497

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  48 Citations (Scopus)

• Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind. Cultural, developmental and evolutionary perspectives in cognitive linguistics

  Sinha, C., 2017, Brill. 353 p. (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics; vol. 6)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The Many Ways to Count the World: Counting Terms in Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Rondônia, Brazil

  Da Silva Sinha, V., Sinha, C. & de Araujo Sampaio, W. B., 2017, In: Brief Encounters. 1, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2016

  North-South relations in linguistic science: Collaboration or colonialism?

  Grinevald, C. & Sinha, C., 3 Oct 2016, Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger. John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 25-43 (Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger; vol. 42).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• When Time Is Not Space: The Social and Linguistic Construction of Time Intervals and Temporal Event Relations in an Amazonian Culture

  Sinha, C., da Silva Sinha, V., Zinken, J. & Sampaio, W., 14 Jun 2016, Conceptualizations of Time. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. (ed.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 151-186 36 p. (Human Cognitive Processing; vol. 52).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Espaço, tempo e espaço-tempo: metáforas, mapas e fusões

  Translated title of the contribution: Space, time and space-time: metaphors, maps and fusionsSinha, C. & Bernárdez, E., 2015, In: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica. 7, 1, p. 53-77

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Language and other artifacts: Socio-cultural dynamics of niche construction

  Sinha, C., 2015, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 6, OCT, 1601.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  57 Citations (Scopus)

• Ontogenesis, semiosis and the epigenetic dynamics of biocultural niche construction

  Sinha, C., 1 Oct 2015, In: Cognitive Development. 36, p. 202-209 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• Special issue of Cognitive Development on cognitive and semiotic development

  Lenninger, S. (ed.), Sinha, C. (ed.) & Sonesson, G. (ed.), 2015, In: Cognitive Development. 36, p. 127-209

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2014

  Is space-time metaphorical mapping universal? Time for a cultural turn

  Sinha, C., 2014, Multilingual Cognition and Language Use. Filipovic, L. & Putz, M. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 183-202 (Multilingual Cognition and Language Use; vol. 44).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Metaphors, maps and fusions: Space, time and space-time

  Sinha, C. & Bernárdez, E., 17 Dec 2014, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture. Sharifian, F. (ed.). Routledge, p. 309-324

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Niche construction and semiosis: biocultural and social dynamics

  Sinha, C., 26 Jun 2014, The Social Origins of Language. Dor, D., Knight, C. & Lewis, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 31-46

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Signification et materialité: le langage au fondement des artefacts symbolique

  Translated title of the contribution: Meaning and materiality: How language grounds symbolic cognitive artefactsSinha, C., 2014, Psychologie du développement, sémiotique et culture. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, p. 117-138

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Time, space, and events in language and cognition: A comparative view

  Sinha, C. & Gärdenfors, P., 1 Oct 2014, In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1326, 1, p. 72-81 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  39 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Living in the Model: The Cognitive Ecology of Time—A Comparative Study

  Sinha, C., 1 Sept 2013, Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. p. 55-73 (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; vol. 8).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 1989

  Appealing Rhetorics: Ideology and Argumentation

  Sinha, C. & Maier, R. (ed.), 31 Dec 1989, Norms in Argumentation: Proceedings of the Conference on Norms 1988. Maier, R. (ed.). De Gruyter, p. 179-194

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter