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<p>Generated within Cultural Model Theory, we present and discuss the results of a research project about the mental and linguistic representation of quality distinctions in Tongan, a Polynesian language. Previous research had discovered the Tongan foundational cultural model of Radiality—whose major trait is the backgrounding of ego and the foregrounding of other-than-ego—in a number of ontological primes, such as space, time, and relationship (kinship, social and with supernatural). Then, Radiality was suggested as being at the root of Tongan and Polynesian sociocentrism. The results of this new research indicate that the foundational cultural model of Radiality also contributes to the construction of another ontological prime, quality. An innovative methodology, based on the expression of primary and secondary quality distinctions by adjectives, was used to ascertain the contribution of Radiality to this underexplored domain.</p>

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Radiality (space), sociocentrism, and Tongan representations of quality distinctions

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    2026年5月3日

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  • Giovanni Bennardo,
  • ‘Okusitino Tae,
  • Tevita Molisi Manu’atu

摘要

Generated within Cultural Model Theory, we present and discuss the results of a research project about the mental and linguistic representation of quality distinctions in Tongan, a Polynesian language. Previous research had discovered the Tongan foundational cultural model of Radiality—whose major trait is the backgrounding of ego and the foregrounding of other-than-ego—in a number of ontological primes, such as space, time, and relationship (kinship, social and with supernatural). Then, Radiality was suggested as being at the root of Tongan and Polynesian sociocentrism. The results of this new research indicate that the foundational cultural model of Radiality also contributes to the construction of another ontological prime, quality. An innovative methodology, based on the expression of primary and secondary quality distinctions by adjectives, was used to ascertain the contribution of Radiality to this underexplored domain.