17.1518, Books: Cognitive Science/Semantics: Hickmann, Robert (Eds)

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Date: 16-May-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Space in Languages: Hickmann, Robert (Eds) 

	
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:28:34
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Space in Languages: Hickmann, Robert (Eds) 
 

Title: Space in Languages 
Subtitle: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 66  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2066 


Editor: Maya Hickmann, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Editor: Stéphane Robert, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Hardback: ISBN: 9027229775 Pages: x, 362 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229775 Pages: x, 362 Price: U.S. $ 144.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9027229775 Pages: x, 362 Price: U.S. $ 65.95
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Abstract:

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. 


Table of contents

Introduction: Space, language, and cognition: Some new challenges 
Maya Hickmann and Stéphane Robert 1-15
  
Part I -- Typology of linguistics systems: Universals, variability, and
change
   
Encoding the distinction between location, source, and destination: A
typological study 
Denis Creissels 19-28  

The expression of static location in a typological perspective 
Colette Grinevald 29-58  

What makes manner of motion salient? Explorations in linguistic typology,
discourse, and cognition 
Dan I. Slobin 59-81  

The semantic structure of motion verbs in French: Typological perspectives 
Anetta Kopecka 83-101  

>From personal deixis to spatial deixis: The semantic evolution of
demonstratives from Latin to French 
Christiane Marchello-Nizia 103-120  

Motion events in Chinese: A diachronic study of directional complements 
Alain Peyraube 121-135
  
Part II -- The nature and uses of space in language and discourse
   
Are there spatial prepositions? 
Claude Vandeloise 137-154  

Deitic space in Wolof: Discourse, syntax and the importance of absence 
Stéphane Robert 155-174  

The semantics of motion verbs: Action, space, and qualia 
Pierre Cadiot, Franck Lebas and Yves-Marie Visetti 175-206  

The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language 
Leonard Talmy 207-238  

Iconicity and space in French sign language 
Marie-Anne Sallandre 239-255
  
Part III -- Space, language, and cognition
   
On the very idea of a frame of reference 
Jérôme Dokic and Elisabeth Pacherie 259-280  

The relativity of motion in first language acquisition 
Maya Hickmann 281-308  

Spatial language and spatial representation: Autonomy and interaction 
Barbara Landau and Laura Lakusta 309-333  

Deficits in spatial discourse of Alzheimer patients 
Michel Denis, Karine Ricalens, Véronique Baudoin and Jean-Luc Nespoulous
335-349
  
Index  351-361 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Semantics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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