Author : Emile van der Zee
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199260195
This is the first book in a new series at the forefront of research in the interfaces between brain, perception, and language.
Author : Anna Asbury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255037
The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. Analyses are presented in several different frameworks and approaches, including generative syntax, optimality theoretic semantics and syntax, formal semantics, mathematical modeling, lexical syntax, and pragmatics. Among the languages featured in detail are English, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, and Persian. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of formal semantics, syntax and language typology, as well as scholars with a more general interest in spatial cognition.
Author : Laura Carlson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199264325
The 'language and space' area is a relatively new research area in cognitive science. Studying how language and spatial representation are linked in the human brain mainly draws on research in existing disciplines focusing on language, perception, categorization and development. Representative researchers from these sub-disciplines of cognitive science discuss new insights in their own field of expertise and show what role their definition of 'function', 'feature'or 'functional feature' plays in their research. New research centered around these concepts is on the forefront of developments in these sub-disciplines and in the area of 'Language and Space'.
Author : Luna Filipovi?
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027273618
This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.
Author : Mila Vulchanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199661219
This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language.
Author : Stephan Winter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2007-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540747885
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 102 submissions, and they are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection.
Author : Kenny R. Coventry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 019955420X
This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. The book reports on the latest developments in the field of spatial language and sets an agenda for future research on spatial conceptualization and communication in cognitive science, computer science, psychology, and linguistics.
Author : Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311069381X
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.
Author : Thora Tenbrink
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110195200
Does temporal language depend on spatial language? Many parallels between spatial and temporal expressions, and many examples of metaphorical processes, seem to prove this. But how are expressions such as before and after, in front and behind actually used in natural discourse - does their application reflect a conceptual dependency relation? The book addresses this question from an innovative perspective, drawing together earlier findings from various directions and supplementing them by empirical investigations. Gradually a new picture emerges: The concepts of space and time are represented in language usage in various systematic ways, reflecting how we understand the world - and at the same time reflecting how our concepts of space and time differ fundamentally.
Author : Paul Chilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1107010136
A new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.
