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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Year

2011

ISBN

9783110821611

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Introduction: Language and the cognitive construal of space
PART A: SPACE IN LANGUAGE
Section 1: Pointing, deixis, and distance
The Japanese verbal suffixes as indicators of distance and proximity
Demonstratives as locating expressions
‘Here’ and ‘there’ in Croatian: A case study of an urban standard variety
Prosodic and paralinguistic signals of distance
Section 2: Conceptualizing space in prepositions and in morphology
The German über
The separability of German über -: A cognitive approach
Prepositional prototypes
Space and movement in the English verb system
The representation of space in English derivational morphology
PART B: SPACE AS A CULTURAL ARTIFACT
Section 3: Can language use cope with space?
Spatial deixis in Afrikaans dictionaries
What good are locationals, anyway?
Iconicity in verbal descriptions of space
Section 4: Variability in the conceptualization of space
The syntax and semantics of locativised nouns in Zulu
Distinguishing the notion ‘place’ in an Oceanic language
The linguistic, cognitive and cultural variables of the conceptualization of space
Rethinking some universals of spatial language using controlled comparison
PART C: SPACE AS A BRIDGE TO OTHER CONCEPTUAL DOMAINS
Section 5: From one meaning to another
Polarity and metaphor in German
Metaphors of ‘total enclosure’ grammaticizing into middle voice markers Susan Strauss
Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond
The story of -ing: A subjective perspective
The temporal use of Hawaiian directional particles
The spatial structuring of events: A study of Polish perfectivizing prefixes
Temporal meanings of spatial prepositions in Polish: The case of przez and w
Viewpoint and subjectivity in English inversion
How do we mentally localize different types of spatial concepts?
PART D: SPACE AS AN ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE OF THOUGHT
Section 7: Discourse as space
Space in dramatic discourse
How space structures discourse
The (meta-)textual space
Section 8: Abstract worlds as space
From one meaning to the next: The effects of polysemous relationships in lexical learning
Metaphorical scenarios of science
Language, space and theography: The case of height vs. depth
List of contributors
Subject Index