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.

Table of 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