Language, cognition and space : the state of the art and new directions / edited by Vyvyan Evans and Paul Chilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Vyvyan.

Chilton, Paul A. (Paul Anthony)

Series:

Advances in cognitive linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Space perception.

Physical Description:

519 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville : Equinox Pub., [2010]

Summary:

Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store 'cognitive maps' for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the ability for spatial representation results in rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of representations for three-dimensional physical space.

Contents:

The perceptual basis of spatial representation / Vyvyan Evans

Language and space : momentary interactions / Barbara Landau, Banchiamlack Dessalegn, and Ariel Micah Goldberg

Language and inner space / Benjamin Bergen, Carl Polley and Kathryn Wheeler

Inside in and on : typological and psycholinguistic perspectives / Michele I. Feist

Parsing space around objects / Laura Carlson

A neuroscientific perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations / David Kemmerer

Genesis of spatial terms / Claude Vandeloise

Forceful prepositions / Joost Zwarts

From the spatial to the non-spatial : the 'state' lexical concepts of in, on and at / Vyvyan Evans

Static topological relations in Basque / Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

Taking the principled polysemy model of spatial particles beyond English : the case of Russian za / Darya Shakhova and Andrea Tyler

Frames of reference, effects of motion, and lexical meanings of Japanese front/back terms / Kazuko Shinohara and Yoshihiro Matsunaka

How spoken language and signed language structure space differently / Leonard Talmy

Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space / Irene Mittelberg

Translocation, language and the categorization of experience / Jordan Zlatev, Johan Blomberg and Caroline David

Motion : a conceptual typology / Stéphanie Pourcel

Space for thinking / Daniel Casasanto

Temporal frames of reference / Jörg Zinken

From mind to grammar : coordinate systems, prepositions, constructions / Paul Chilton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845532529

184553252X

9781845535018

1845535014

OCLC:

144226941

Publisher Number:

99942736998