The Construal of Space in Language and Thought
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The Construal of Space in Language and Thought

  1. 727 pages
  2. English
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The Construal of Space in Language and Thought

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction: Language and the cognitive construal of space
  2. PART A: SPACE IN LANGUAGE
  3. Section 1: Pointing, deixis, and distance
  4. The Japanese verbal suffixes as indicators of distance and proximity
  5. Demonstratives as locating expressions
  6. ‘Here’ and ‘there’ in Croatian: A case study of an urban standard variety
  7. Prosodic and paralinguistic signals of distance
  8. Section 2: Conceptualizing space in prepositions and in morphology
  9. The German über
  10. The separability of German über -: A cognitive approach
  11. Prepositional prototypes
  12. Space and movement in the English verb system
  13. The representation of space in English derivational morphology
  14. PART B: SPACE AS A CULTURAL ARTIFACT
  15. Section 3: Can language use cope with space?
  16. Spatial deixis in Afrikaans dictionaries
  17. What good are locationals, anyway?
  18. Iconicity in verbal descriptions of space
  19. Section 4: Variability in the conceptualization of space
  20. The syntax and semantics of locativised nouns in Zulu
  21. Distinguishing the notion ‘place’ in an Oceanic language
  22. The linguistic, cognitive and cultural variables of the conceptualization of space
  23. Rethinking some universals of spatial language using controlled comparison
  24. PART C: SPACE AS A BRIDGE TO OTHER CONCEPTUAL DOMAINS
  25. Section 5: From one meaning to another
  26. Polarity and metaphor in German
  27. Metaphors of ‘total enclosure’ grammaticizing into middle voice markers Susan Strauss
  28. Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond
  29. The story of -ing: A subjective perspective
  30. The temporal use of Hawaiian directional particles
  31. The spatial structuring of events: A study of Polish perfectivizing prefixes
  32. Temporal meanings of spatial prepositions in Polish: The case of przez and w
  33. Viewpoint and subjectivity in English inversion
  34. How do we mentally localize different types of spatial concepts?
  35. PART D: SPACE AS AN ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE OF THOUGHT
  36. Section 7: Discourse as space
  37. Space in dramatic discourse
  38. How space structures discourse
  39. The (meta-)textual space
  40. Section 8: Abstract worlds as space
  41. From one meaning to the next: The effects of polysemous relationships in lexical learning
  42. Metaphorical scenarios of science
  43. Language, space and theography: The case of height vs. depth
  44. List of contributors
  45. Subject Index