The Construal of Spatial Meaning

Windows into Conceptual Space
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-964163-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

This book considers how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning not only in language but also through gesture and pointing. Researchers explore the ways in which theoretical developments in language and cognition, new empirical techniques, and new computational facilities have led to a greater understanding of the relationship between physical space and mental space as expressed in human communication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paradis, Carita

Hudson, Jean

Magnusson, Ulf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Carita Paradis, Jean Hudson, and Ulf Magnusson: Introduction - Windows In: Empirical Evidence of Construals of Spatial Meaning

- 2: Roger Johansson, Jana Holsanova, and Kenneth Holmqvist: Using Eye Movements and Spoken Discourse as Windows to Inner Space

- 3: Peter Gärdenfors and Massimo Warglien: The Development of Semantic Space for Pointing and Verbal Communication

- 4: Marcua Perlman and Raymond Gibbs: Drawing Motion That Isn't There: Psycholinguistic Evidence on the Spatial Basis of Metaphorical Motion Verbs

- 5: Nicla Rossini: Differential use of Dominant and Non-Dominant hands: A Window on Referential and Non-Referential Functions

- 6: Kristiina Jokinen, Silvi Tenjes, and Ingrid Rummo: Embodied Interaction and Semiotic Categorization: Communicative Gestures of a Girl with Patau Syndrome

- 7: Mark Tutton: Describing Adjacency Along the lateral Axis: The Complementary Roles of Speech and Gesture

- 8: Per Durst-Andersen, Viktor Smith, and Ole Nedergaard Thomsen: Towards a Cognitive-Semiotic Typology of Motion Verbs

- 9: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Liliana Martinez, and Ole Edsberg: A Basic Level for the Encoding of Biological Motion

- 10: Henrik Hovmark: Danish Directional Adverbs: Ways of Profiling a Motion Event

- 11: Anne-katharina Harr and Maya Hickmann: How German and French Children Express Voluntary Motion

- 12: Marlene Johansson Falck: Narrow paths, Difficult Roads, and Long Ways: Travel Through Space and Metaphorical Meaning

- 13: Johan Pedersen: The way-Construction and Cross-linguistic Variation in Syntax. Implications for Typological Theory

- 14: Elena Tribushinina: Spatial Adjectives in Dutch Child Language: Towards a usage-based Model of Adjective Acquisition

- 15: carita paradis and Caroline Willners: Negation and Approximation of Antonymic Meanings as Configuration Construals in Space

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carita Paradis is Professor of English Linguistics at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, Sweden. Her main research interests concern meaning in the broad sense. She specializes in lexical semantics and the modelling of meaning within the Cognitive Linguistics framework. She combines corpus methods and experimental methods in her work.

Jean Hudson is Professor of English Linguistics at Malmö University, Sweden. The focus of her research efforts is on the empirical investigation of spontaneous speech data in the search for insights into the relationship between language and cognition. She is currently investigating prepositional usage within the general framework of construction grammar.

Ulf Magnusson is Emeritus Professor of English at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and previously held posts as Professor of English and University Lecturer at Högskolan Kristianstad, Sweden. Magnusson's interests are mainly in English lexicography, metaphor, and cognitive linguistics.