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| Author | : Mila Vulchanova |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199661219 |
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This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language.
| Author | : Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2017-08-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027265364 |
Download Motion and Space across Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event descriptions and their role in typological variation, the function of linguistic multimodal structures for the codification of motion, the diachronic evolution of motion expressions and its effects on motion typologies, the correspondences between physical and non-physical (fictive, metaphorical) motion, and the impact of contexts and genres on the characterization and interpretation of motion events. These issues are examined from a theoretical and applied linguistic perspective (L1–L2 acquisition, translation/interpreting). The analyses make use of diachronic and synchronic data collected by a range of methods (elicitation, experimentation, and corpus research) in more than fifteen languages. All in all, this book will be of great value to scholars and students interested in the expression of motion and space across languages.
| Author | : Juliana Goschler |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2013-11-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027270945 |
Download Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed languages. This volume contains ten original papers focusing specifically on the variation and change of motion event encoding in individual languages and language families. The authors show that some of the central claims about motion event encoding need careful re-examination and reformulation and that individual languages and language families are more variable across space and time than even a refined typology could neatly capture at this time. The volume thus contributes to a more detailed and fine-grained foundation for the investigation of conceptual causes and consequences of different motion-event encoding strategies.
| Author | : Carita Paradis |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2013-04-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199641633 |
Download The Construal of Spatial Meaning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book deals with how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning in language and through gesture and pointing. The research draws on data from textual investigation using corpora, as well as from experiments of various kinds, such as psycholinguistic experiments and eye-tracking.
| Author | : Anna Margetts |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2022-05-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027257868 |
Download Caused Accompanied Motion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Americas, Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered, underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature, extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity.
| Author | : Michel Aurnague |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2019-07-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262500 |
Download The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties were related to specific semantic distinctions, such as the opposition between “movement” and “displacement”. This volume provides an overview of recent studies on the semantics of dynamic space in French and addresses important questions about motion expression, among which “goal bias” and asymmetry of motion, the status of locative PPs, the expression of manner, fictive or non-actual motion. Descriptive, experimental and formal or computational analyses are presented, providing complementary perspectives on the main issue. The volume is intended for researchers and advanced students wishing to learn about both spatial semantics in French and recent debates on the representation of motion events in language and cognition.
| Author | : Andreas H. Jucker |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 689 |
| Release | : 2022-09-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311069381X |
Download Pragmatics of Space Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of language use in space. It consists of four parts. The first part covers the various practices of describing space through language, including spatial references in spoken interaction or in written texts, the description of motion events as well as the creation of imaginative spaces in storytelling. The second part surveys aspects of the spatial organization of face-to-face communication including not only spatial arrangements of small groups in interaction but also the spatial dimension of sign language and gestures. The third part is devoted to the communicative resources of constructed spaces and the ways in which these facilitate and shape communication. Part four, finally, is devoted to pragmatics across space and cultures, i.e. the ways in which language use differs across language varieties, languages and cultures.
| Author | : Till Woerfel |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2018-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501507974 |
Download Encoding Motion Events Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at school. Recurrently, these children have been the subject of controversial debates about their linguistic abilities in relation to their educational success. However, such debates fail to recognise that variation in bilinguals’ language processing is a phenomenon in its own right that results from the dynamic influence of one language on another. This volume provides insight into cross-linguistic influence in Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilingual children and uncovers the nature of variation in L1 and L2 oral motion event descriptions by evaluating the impact of language-specific patterns and language dominance. The results indicate that next to typological differences between the speakers’ L1 and L2, language dominance has an impact on the type and direction of influence. However, the author argues that most variation can be explained by L1/L2 usage preferences. Bilinguals make frequent use of patterns that exist in both languages, but are unequally preferred by monolingual speakers. This finding underlines the importance of usage-based approaches in SLA.
| Author | : Maya Hickmann |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2006-05-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027293554 |
Download Space in Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the collective aim of addressing fundamental questions at the forefront of the current literature: the nature of space in language, the linguistic relativity of space, the relation between spatial language and cognition. Linguistic analyses highlight the multidimensional and heterogeneous nature of space, while also showing the existence of a set of types, parameters, and principles organizing the considerable diversity of linguistic systems and accounting for mechanisms of diachronic change. Findings concerning spatial perception and cognition suggest the existence of two distinct systems governing linguistic and non-linguistic representations, that only partially overlap in some pathologies, but they also show the strong impact of language-specific factors on the course of language acquisition and cognitive development.
| Author | : Silvia Luraghi |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2017-08-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027265194 |
Download Space in Diachrony Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show that path is less frequently flagged by a dedicated case than goal, source/origin, and (static) location (locative). Interestingly, such asymmetries may correlate with certain types of landmark, as in the case of toponyms or of animate entities. Even though these issues have been focused upon both in typological and psycholinguistic research, they remain largely open. The papers in this collection aim to show that a diachronic approach may shed light on the way in which asymmetries in the space domain come about over time, thus contributing to the clarification of synchronically puzzling facts.
