Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives
E-Book, Englisch, Band 24, 704 Seiten
Reihe: linguae & litterae
ISBN: 978-3-11-031202-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
- Language, space, and geography
- Grammar, space, and cognition
- Language and interactional spaces
The contributions in this book cover geographical language variation within and across languages, language use in stationary and mobile interactional spaces, computer-mediated communication, and spatial reasoning across languages. This range of issues showcases the thematic and methodological breadth of research on language and space. In order to identify interconnections, the respective contributions are accompanied by commentaries that highlight common threads.
Zielgruppe
Linguists, dialectologists
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
Weitere Infos & Material
1;Contents;5
2;Integrating the perspectives on language and space;9
3;Section 1: Geography and variation across languages;27
3.1;Disentangling geography from genealogy;29
3.2;The vertical archipelago: Adding the third dimension to linguistic geography;46
3.3;Language contact between geographic and mental space;69
3.4;Commentary: The notion of space in linguistic typology;109
4;Section 2: Geography and variation within languages;113
4.1;Ideology and discourse in the enregisterment of regional variation;115
4.2;Identity, ethnicity and place: The construction of youth language in London;136
4.3;How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor in morphosyntactic variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world;173
4.4;Area formation in morphosyntax;203
4.5;How much does geography influence language variation?;230
4.6;Commentary: Lost in space?. The many geographies and methodologies in research on variation within languages;248
5;Section 3: Interactional spaces;253
5.1;Interactional space and the study of embodied talk-in-interaction;255
5.2;On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings;284
5.3;Plaza: Space or place?;312
5.4;Xi to vi: “Over that way, look!â€: (Meta)spatial representation in an emerging (Mayan?) sign language;342
5.5;Commentary: What difference does space make for interaction and interaction for space?;409
6;Section 4: Mobile spaces;417
6.1;Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task;419
6.2;Rearranging (in) space. On mobility and its relevance for the study of face-to-face interaction;442
6.3;Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move. Conceptual, analytical and methodological challenges of mobility;472
7;Section 5: Mediated spaces;479
7.1;Language, media, and digital landscapes;481
7.2;Space in computer-mediated communication. Corpus-based investigations on the use of local deictics in chats;502
7.3;Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces. Web-forums for post-colonial communities of practice;537
7.4;Pointing within the abdomen: Local deixis under restricted conditions;565
7.5;Commentary: Making space;609
8;Section 6: Typology and spatial reasoning;613
8.1;Exploiting space in German Sign Language. Linguistic and topographic reference in signed discourse;615
8.2;Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries;645
8.3;Gesture, space, grammar, and cognition;675
8.4;Commentary: Is there a deictic of frame of reference?;695
9;Index;701
