Language and space / edited by Paul Bloom [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Paul, 1963-

Series:

Language, speech, and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in language--Congresses.

Space and time in language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 597 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The study of the relationship between natural language and spatial cognition has the potential to yield answers to vexing questions about the nature of the mind, language, and culture. The fifteen original contributions in Language and Space bring together the major lines of research and the most important theoretical viewpoints in the areas of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, providing a much needed synthesis across these diverse domains.Each chapter gives a clear up-to-date account of a particular research program. Overall, they address such questions as: how does the brain represent space, how many kinds of spatial representations are there, how do we learn to talk about space and what role does culture play in these matters, should experimental tests of the relations between space and language be restricted to closed-class linguistic elements or must the role of open-class elements be considered as well? Throughout authors speak to each other's arguments, laying bare key areas of agreement and disagreement.Contributors: Manfred Bierwisch. Paul Bloom. Melissa Bowerman. Karen Emmorey. Merrill Garrett. Ray Jackendoff. Philip Johnson-Laird. Barbara Landau. Willem Levelt. Stephen Levinson. Gordon Logan. Jean Mandler. Lynn Nadel. John O'Keefe. Mary Peterson. Daniel Sadler. Tim Shallice. Len Talmy. Barbara Tversky.

Contents:

The architecture of the linguistic-spatial interface / Ray Jackendoff

How much space gets into language / Manfred Bierwisch

Perspective taking and ellipsis in spatial descriptions / Willem J.M. Levelt

Frames of reference and Molyneux's question : cross linguistic evidence / Stephen C. Levinson

The confluence of space and language in signed languages / Karen Emmorey

Fictive motion in language and "ception" / Leonard Talmy

The spatial prepositions in English, vector grammar, and the cognitive map theory / John O'Keefe

Multiple geometric representations of objects in languages and language learners / Barbara Landau

Preverbal representation and language / Jean M. Mandler

Learning how to structure space for language : a cross linguistic perspective / Melissa Bowerman

Space to think / Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Spatial perspective in descriptions / Barbara Tversky

A computational analysis of the apprehension of spatial relations / Gordon D. Logan and Daniel D. Sadler

The language-to-object perception interface : evidence from neuropsychology / Tim Shallice

Space and language / Mary A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel, Paul Bloom, and Merrill F. Garrett.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference of the same name which was held Mar. 16-19, 1994, Tucson, Ariz.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-26880-9

0-585-03792-2

OCLC:

42854613