Pragmatics of space / Andreas H. Jucker and Heiko Hausendorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jucker, Andreas H., author.

Hausendorf, H. (Heiko), author.

Series:

Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]

Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in language.

Space and time in language--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (762 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of language use in space. It consists of four parts. The first part covers the various practices of describing space through language, including spatial references in spoken interaction or in written texts, the description of motion events as well as the creation of imaginative spaces in storytelling. The second part surveys aspects of the spatial organization of face-to-face communication including not only spatial arrangements of small groups in interaction but also the spatial dimension of sign language and gestures. The third part is devoted to the communicative resources of constructed spaces and the ways in which these facilitate and shape communication. Part four, finally, is devoted to pragmatics across space and cultures, i.e. the ways in which language use differs across language varieties, languages and cultures.

Contents:

Intro

Preface to the handbook series

Preface

Table of Contents

1. Doing space: The pragmatics of language and space

I. Describing space through language

2. Deictic reference in space

3. The conceptualization of space in signed languages: Placing the signer in narratives

4. Spatiality in written texts

5. Interactional onomastics: Place names as malleable resources

6. Describing motion events

7. Discourses of place: The formation of space and place through discourse

8. Imaginary spaces in storytelling

9. Developmental perspectives on doing talk about space

II. Spatial organization of social interaction

10. Encounters in public places: The establishment of interactional space in face-to-face openings

11. Interactional spaces in stationary, mobile, video-mediated and virtual encounters

12. The pragmatics of gesture and space

13. Distance and closeness: The im/politeness of space in communication

III. Communicative resources of constructed spaces

14. Architecture-for-interaction: Built, designed and furnished space for communicative purposes

15. Building, dwelling, and interacting: Steps in the evolution of public space from Paleolithic to present

16. The pragmatics of linguistic landscapes

17. The pragmatics of written texts in space

18. Co-presence and beyond: Spatial configurations of communication in virtual environments

IV. Pragmatics across space and cultures

19. Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space

20. Pragmatic variation across national varieties of pluricentric languages

21. Mapping perceptions and knowledge of language: Societal multilingualism and its sociopragmatic grounding

Bionotes

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jucker, Andreas H. Pragmatics of Space

ISBN:

3-11-069371-2