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The Construal of Space in Language and Thought
ISSN, Band 8 1. Aufl.
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204,95 € |
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| Verlag: | De Gruyter |
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| Veröffentl.: | 11.07.2011 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783110821611 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 727 |
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Beschreibungen
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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