Language, cognition, and space
Subtitle: the state of the art and new directions
By: edited by Vyvyan Evans and Paul Chilton.
Contributors: Evans, Vyvyan.; Chilton, Paul A.
Series: Advances in cognitive linguistics
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Oakville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9781845532529; 9781845535018
Subjects: Cognitive grammar; Space perception
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The perceptual basis of spatial representation / Vyvyan Evans; title: Language and space : momentary interactions / Barbara Landau, Banchiamlack Dessalegn, and Ariel Micah Goldberg; title: Language and inner space / Benjamin Bergen, Carl Polley, and Kathryn Wheeler; title: Inside in and on : typological and psycholinguistic perspectives / Michele Feist; title: Parsing space around objects / Laura Carlson; title: A neuroscientific perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations / David Kemmerer; title: The genesis of spatial terms / Claude Vandeloise; title: Forceful prepositions / Joost Zwarts; title: From the spatial to the non-spatial : the "state" lexical concepts of in, on, and at / Vyvyan Evans; title: Static topological relations in Basque / Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano; title: Taking the principled polysemy model of spatial particles beyond English : the case of Russian za / Darya Shakhova and Andrea Tyler; title: Frames of reference, effects of motion, and lexical meanings of Japanese front/back terms / Kazuko Shinohara and Yoshihiro Matsunaka; title: How spoken language and signed language structure space differently / Leonard Talmy; title: Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space / Irene Mittelberg; title: Translocation, language, and the categorization of experience / Jordan Zlatev, Johan Blomberg, and Caroline David; title: Motion : a conceptual typology / Stéphanie Pourcel; title: Space for thinking / Daniel Casasanto; title: Temporal frames of reference / Jörg Zinken; title: From mind to grammar : coordinate systems, prepositions, constructions / Paul Chilton.