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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Thiering, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 27
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110356878; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110742961; 9783110369526; 9783110370270
• ISSN: 1861-4078
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110356878
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martin Thiering.

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.