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Spatial Semiotics and Spatial Mental Models : Figure-Ground Asymmetries in Language / Martin Thiering.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 27Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (291 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110354133
  • 9783110394436
  • 9783110356878
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.442 23
LOC classification:
  • P35 .T49 2015
  • P35 .T49 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Index of Tables -- Table of Content -- Part I: Theoretical Preambel -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2: Cognitive Representation of Knowledge: Spatial Mental Models -- Part II: Linguistic encodings of spatial mental models: the case studies -- Chapter 3: Figure-ground reversals in language -- Chapter 4: Degrees of specificity in spatial semantics -- Chapter 5: Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene -- Part III: Spatial concepts as landmarks: cognitive semantics meets cognitive anthropology -- Chapter 6: Spatial concepts, language and practice in Eipo and Dene -- Chapter 7: Closing the stage -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book presents novel data from endangered languages and cultures that are ever so often still not focused on. It combines different disciplines to capture the intricacies of spatial orientation and navigation. Also, the interplay between culture through language and practices presents new insights in the importance of combining cognitive semantics with cognitive anthropology.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110356878

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Index of Tables -- Table of Content -- Part I: Theoretical Preambel -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2: Cognitive Representation of Knowledge: Spatial Mental Models -- Part II: Linguistic encodings of spatial mental models: the case studies -- Chapter 3: Figure-ground reversals in language -- Chapter 4: Degrees of specificity in spatial semantics -- Chapter 5: Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene -- Part III: Spatial concepts as landmarks: cognitive semantics meets cognitive anthropology -- Chapter 6: Spatial concepts, language and practice in Eipo and Dene -- Chapter 7: Closing the stage -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book presents novel data from endangered languages and cultures that are ever so often still not focused on. It combines different disciplines to capture the intricacies of spatial orientation and navigation. Also, the interplay between culture through language and practices presents new insights in the importance of combining cognitive semantics with cognitive anthropology.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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