Spatial language and dialogue /

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial languag...

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Gespeichert in:
Hauptverfasser:
Coventry, Kenny R., Tenbrink, Thora, Bateman, John A.
Weitere Verfasser:
Tenbrink, Thora
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Zusammenfassung:
This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather thanmonologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research an
Umfang:
1 online resource (227 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-206) and indexes.
ISBN:
1-282-26839-2
9786612268397
0-19-156783-3
Schlagworte:
Dialogue analysis.
Space and time in language.
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