Auer / Hilpert / Stukenbrock Space in Language and Linguistics

Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-031202-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 24, 704 Seiten

Reihe: linguae & litterae

This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive interconnections. Specifically, the book aims to interconnect the following research areas: Language, space, and geographyGrammar, space, and cognitionLanguage and interactional spacesThe contributions in this book cover geographical language variation within and across languages, language use in stationary and mobile interactional spaces, computer-mediated communication, and spatial reasoning across languages. This range of issues showcases the thematic and methodological breadth of research on language and space. In order to identify interconnections, the respective contributions are accompanied by commentaries that highlight common threads.

Zielgruppe

Linguists, dialectologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auer, Peter

Hilpert, Martin

Stukenbrock, Anja

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Integrating the perspectives on language and space;9
3;Section 1: Geography and variation across languages;27
3.1;Disentangling geography from genealogy;29
3.2;The vertical archipelago: Adding the third dimension to linguistic geography;46
3.3;Language contact between geographic and mental space;69
3.4;Commentary: The notion of space in linguistic typology;109
4;Section 2: Geography and variation within languages;113
4.1;Ideology and discourse in the enregisterment of regional variation;115
4.2;Identity, ethnicity and place: The construction of youth language in London;136
4.3;How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor in morphosyntactic variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world;173
4.4;Area formation in morphosyntax;203
4.5;How much does geography influence language variation?;230
4.6;Commentary: Lost in space?. The many geographies and methodologies in research on variation within languages;248
5;Section 3: Interactional spaces;253
5.1;Interactional space and the study of embodied talk-in-interaction;255
5.2;On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings;284
5.3;Plaza: Space or place?;312
5.4;Xi to vi: “Over that way, look!â€: (Meta)spatial representation in an emerging (Mayan?) sign language;342
5.5;Commentary: What difference does space make for interaction and interaction for space?;409
6;Section 4: Mobile spaces;417
6.1;Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task;419
6.2;Rearranging (in) space. On mobility and its relevance for the study of face-to-face interaction;442
6.3;Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move. Conceptual, analytical and methodological challenges of mobility;472
7;Section 5: Mediated spaces;479
7.1;Language, media, and digital landscapes;481
7.2;Space in computer-mediated communication. Corpus-based investigations on the use of local deictics in chats;502
7.3;Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces. Web-forums for post-colonial communities of practice;537
7.4;Pointing within the abdomen: Local deixis under restricted conditions;565
7.5;Commentary: Making space;609
8;Section 6: Typology and spatial reasoning;613
8.1;Exploiting space in German Sign Language. Linguistic and topographic reference in signed discourse;615
8.2;Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries;645
8.3;Gesture, space, grammar, and cognition;675
8.4;Commentary: Is there a deictic of frame of reference?;695
9;Index;701

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Auer, U. Freiburg i.Br.; Martin Hilpert, U. de Neuchâtel; Anja Stukenbrock, U. Duisburg-Essen; Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, KU Leuven.