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The Construal of Space in Language and Thought / ed. by Martin Pütz, René Dirven.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 8Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (704 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110152432
  • 9783110821611
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 20
LOC classification:
  • P37.5.S65 C66 1996eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- 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 Β 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 -- Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond -- The story of -ing: A subjective perspective -- The temporal use of Hawaiian directional particles -- 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
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I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- 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 Β 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 -- Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond -- The story of -ing: A subjective perspective -- The temporal use of Hawaiian directional particles -- 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

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