Space in Language and Linguistics: Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Space in Language and Linguistics

Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives

Edited by: Peter Auer , Martin Hilpert , Anja Stukenbrock and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Volume 24 in the series linguae & litterae

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110312027

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About this book

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 geography
Grammar, space, and cognition
Language and interactional spaces

The 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.

Author / Editor information

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Integrating the perspectives on language and space Peter Auer, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section 1: Geography and variation across languages
Disentangling geography from genealogy Michael Cysouw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
The vertical archipelago: Adding the third dimension to linguistic geography Johanna Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Language contact between geographic and mental space Walter Bisang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Commentary: The notion of space in linguistic typology Ekkehard König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Section 2: Geography and variation within languages
Ideology and discourse in the enregisterment of regional variation Barbara Johnstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Identity, ethnicity and place: The construction of youth language in London Paul Kerswill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor in morphosyntactic variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world Bernd Kortmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Area formation in morphosyntax Elvira Glaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
How much does geography influence language variation? John Nerbonne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Commentary: Lost in space? The many geographies and methodologies in research on variation within languages Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Section 3: Interactional spaces
Interactional space and the study of embodied talk-in-interaction Lorenza Mondada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings Heiko Hausendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Plaza: Space or place? Jürgen Streeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Xi to vi: “Over that way, look!”: (Meta)spatial representation in an emerging (Mayan?) sign language John B. Haviland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
Commentary: What difference does space make for interaction and interaction for space? Anja Stukenbrock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
Section 4: Mobile spaces
Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task Pentti Haddington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Rearranging (in) space On mobility and its relevance for the study of face-to-face interaction Elwys De Stefani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move Conceptual, analytical and methodological challenges of mobility Lorenza Mondada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	464
Section 5: Mediated spaces
Language, media, and digital landscapes Marco Jacquemet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
Space in computer-mediated communication Corpus-based investigations on the use of local deictics in chats Michael Beißwenger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	494
Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces Web-forums for post-colonial communities of practice Christian Mair and Stefan Pfänder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
Pointing within the abdomen: Local deixis under restricted conditions Susanne Uhmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	557
Commentary: Making space Monica Heller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	601
Section 6: Typology and spatial reasoning
Exploiting space in German Sign Language Linguistic and topographic reference in signed discourse Gisela Fehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	607
Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries Jürgen Bohnemeyer and Randi Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	637
Gesture, space, grammar, and cognition Alan Cienki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
Commentary: Is there a deictic of frame of reference? Holger Diessel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	687
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	693

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists, dialectologists
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 697
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 213
- Coloured Illustrations: 14
Keywords: Space; Geolinguistics; Interaction; Cognition

eBook

Published: November 27, 2013
ISBN: 9783110312027

Hardcover

Published: November 15, 2013
ISBN: 9783110311969