The construal of spacial meaning : windows into conceptual space /

This text 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 experiment...

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Hauptverfasser:
Paradis, Carita., Hudson, Jean., Magnusson, Ulf
Weitere Verfasser:
Paradis, Carita, Hudson, Jean, Magnusson, Ulf
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Zusammenfassung:
This text 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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (368 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
0-19-161314-2
1-299-48527-8
Schlagworte:
Space and time in language.
Typology (Linguistics)
Cognition.
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