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The construal of spacial meaning : windows into conceptual space / edited by Carita Paradis, Jean Hudson, and Ulf Magnusson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Explorations in Language and Space
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space and time in language.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Cognition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text deals with how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning in language and through gesture and pointing. The research draws on data from textual investigation using corpora, as well as from experiments of various kinds, such as psycholinguistic experiments and eye-tracking.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction-Windows In: Empirical Evidence of Construals of Spatial Meaning; 2 Using Eye Movements and Spoken Discourse as Windows to Inner Space; 3 The Development of Semantic Space for Pointing and Verbal Communication; 4 Drawing Motion That Isn't There: Psycholinguistic Evidence on the Spatial Basis of Metaphorical Motion Verbs; 5 Differential Use of Dominant and Non-Dominant Hands: A Window on Referential and Non-Referential Functions
- 6 Embodied Interaction and Semiotic Categorization: Communicative Gestures of a Girl with Patau Syndrome7 Describing Adjacency along the Lateral Axis: the Complementary Roles of Speech and Gesture; 8 Towards a Cognitive-Semiotic Typology of Motion Verbs; 9 A Basic Level for the Encoding of Biological Motion; 10 Danish Directional Adverbs: Ways of Profiling a Motion Event; 11 How German and French Children Express Voluntary Motion; 12 Narrow Paths, Difficult Roads, and Long Ways: Travel through Space and Metaphorical Meaning
- 13 The Way-Construction and Cross-linguistic Variation in Syntax: Implications for Typological Theory14 Spatial Adjectives in Dutch Child Language: towards a Usage-based Model of Adjective Acquisition; 15 Negation and Approximation of Antonymic Meanings as Configuration Construals in SPACE; References; Index Of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 29, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161314-2
- 1-299-48527-8
- OCLC:
- 922971824
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