Language, Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions (Advances in Cognitive Linguistics)

Advances in Cognitive Linguistics / Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2010. — 519 p. — ISBN 978-1-84553-252-9, ISBN 978-1-84553-501-8Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store ‘cognitive maps’ for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the human ability for spatial representation results in rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of representations for three-dimensional physical space. Language, Cognition and Space brings together nineteen articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. This volume represents the state of the art in terms of language and space research and points to new directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice. **Contents.**Introduction.__Paul Chilton.__**Perception and space.**The perceptual basis of spatial representation.__Vyvyan Evans.__**The interaction between language and spatial cognition.**Language and space: momentary interactions.__Barbara Landau, Banchiamlack Dessalegn and Ariel Micah Goldberg.__Language and inner space.__Benjamin Bergen, Carl Polley and Kathryn Wheeler.__**Typological, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches to spatial representation.**Inside in and on: typological and psycholinguistic perspectives.__Michele I. Feist.__Parsing space around objects.__Laura Carlson.__A neuroscientifi c perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations.__David Kemmerer.__**Theoretical approaches to spatial representation in language.**Genesis of spatial terms.__Claude Vandeloise.__Forceful prepositions.__Joost Zwarts.__From the spatial to the non-spatial: the ‘state’ lexical concepts of in, on and at.__Vyvyan Evans.__**Spatial representation in specific languages.**Static topological relations in Basque.__Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano.__Taking the Principled Polysemy Model of spatial particles beyond English: the case of Russian za.__Darya Shakhova and Andrea Tyler.__Frames of reference, eff ects of motion, and lexical meanings of Japanese front/back terms.__Kazuko Shinohara and Yoshihiro Matsunaka.__**Space in sign-language and gesture.**How spoken language and signed language structure space differently.__Leonard Talmy.__Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space.__Irene Mittelberg.__**Motion.**Translocation, language and the categorization of experience.__Jordan Zlatev, Johan Blomberg and Caroline David.__Motion: a conceptual typology.__Stéphanie Pourcel.__**The relation between space, time and modality.**Space for thinking.__Daniel Casasanto.__Temporal frames of reference.__Jörg Zinken.__From mind to grammar: coordinate systems, prepositions, constructions.__Paul Chilton.____Index.__ Advances in Cognitive Linguistics / Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2010. — 519 p. — ISBN 978-1-84553-252-9, ISBN 978-1-84553-501-8 Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store ‘cognitive maps’ for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the human ability for spatial representation results in rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of representations for three-dimensional physical space. Language, Cognition and Space brings together nineteen articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. This volume represents the state of the art in terms of language and space research and points to new directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice. Contents. Introduction. Paul Chilton. Perception and space. The perceptual basis of spatial representation. Vyvyan Evans. The interaction between language and spatial cognition. Language and space: momentary interactions. Barbara Landau, Banchiamlack Dessalegn and Ariel Micah Goldberg. Language and inner space. Benjamin Bergen, Carl Polley and Kathryn Wheeler. Typological, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches to spatial representation. Inside in and on: typological and psycholinguistic perspectives. Michele I. Feist. Parsing space around objects. Laura Carlson. A neuroscientifi c perspective on the linguistic encoding of categorical spatial relations. David Kemmerer. Theoretical approaches to spatial representation in language. Genesis of spatial terms. Claude Vandeloise. Forceful prepositions. Joost Zwarts. From the spatial to the non-spatial: the ‘state’ lexical concepts of in, on and at. Vyvyan Evans. Spatial representation in specific languages. Static topological relations in Basque. Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano. Taking the Principled Polysemy Model of spatial particles beyond English: the case of Russian za. Darya Shakhova and Andrea Tyler. Frames of reference, eff ects of motion, and lexical meanings of Japanese front/back terms. Kazuko Shinohara and Yoshihiro Matsunaka. Space in sign-language and gesture. How spoken language and signed language structure space differently. Leonard Talmy. Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space. Irene Mittelberg. Motion. Translocation, language and the categorization of experience. Jordan Zlatev, Johan Blomberg and Caroline David. Motion: a conceptual typology. Stéphanie Pourcel. The relation between space, time and modality. Space for thinking. Daniel Casasanto. Temporal frames of reference. Jörg Zinken. From mind to grammar: coordinate systems, prepositions, constructions. Paul Chilton. Index. 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