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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bellavia, Elena,; Borneto, Carlo Serra,; Botha, Willem J.,; Brisard, Frank,; Casad, Eugene H.,; Cook, Haruko Minegishi,; Cook, Kenneth William,; Cuyckens, Hubert,; Dewell, Robert B.,; Dorgeloh, Heidrun,; Frisson, Steven,; Fuchs, Milena Žic,; Herman, Vimala,; Hill, Deborah,; Inchaurralde, Carlos,; Jäkel, Olaf,; Kastovsky, Dieter,; Kochańska, Agata,; Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara,; Mondada, Lorenza,; Mulder, Walter De,; Neumann, Sabine,; Noppen, Jean-Pierre van,; Nöth, Winfried,; Ozga, Janina,; Pütz, Martin,; Rice, Sally,; Sandra, Dominiek,; Strauss, Susan,; Taylor, John R.,; Verspoor, Marjolijn,; Wenz, Karin,; Widlok, Thomas,; Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia,
• HerausgeberIn: Dirven, René,; Pütz, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (704 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110821611; 9783110636895; 9783110305616
• ISSN: 1861-4132
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110821611
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Martin Pütz, René Dirven.