Space in Language and Linguistics : : Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives / / ed. by Peter Auer, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi.

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• HerausgeberIn: Auer, Peter ,; Hilpert, Martin,; Stukenbrock, Anja,; Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt,
• MitwirkendeR: Auer, Peter,; Beißwenger, Michael,; Bisang, Walter,; Bohnemeyer, Jürgen,; Cienki, Alan,; Cysouw, Michael,; De Stefani, Elwys,; Diessel, Holger,; Fehrmann, Gisela,; Glaser, Elvira,; Haddington, Pentti,; Hausendorf, Heiko,; Haviland, John B.,; Heller, Monica,; Hilpert, Martin,; Jacquemet, Marco,; Johnstone, Barbara,; Kerswill, Paul,; Kortmann, Bernd,; König, Ekkehard,; Mair, Christian,; Mondada, Lorenza,; Nerbonne, John,; Nichols, Johanna,; Pfänder, Stefan,; Streeck, Jürgen,; Stukenbrock, Anja,; Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt,; Tucker, Randi,; Uhmann, Susanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (697 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Integrating the perspectives on language and space -- Section 1: Geography and variation across languages -- Disentangling geography from genealogy -- The vertical archipelago: Adding the third dimension to linguistic geography -- Language contact between geographic and mental space -- Commentary: The notion of space in linguistic typology -- Section 2: Geography and variation within languages -- Ideology and discourse in the enregisterment of regional variation -- Identity, ethnicity and place: The construction of youth language in London -- How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor in morphosyntactic variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world -- Area formation in morphosyntax -- How much does geography influence language variation? -- Commentary: Lost in space? -- Section 3: Interactional spaces -- Interactional space and the study of embodied talk-in-interaction -- On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings -- Plaza: Space or place? -- Xi to vi: “Over that way, look!”: (Meta)spatial representation in an emerging (Mayan?) sign language -- Commentary: What difference does space make for interaction and interaction for space? -- Section 4: Mobile spaces -- Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task -- Rearranging (in) space -- Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move -- Section 5: Mediated spaces -- Language, media, and digital landscapes -- Space in computer-mediated communication -- Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces -- Pointing within the abdomen: Local deixis under restricted conditions -- Commentary: Making space -- Section 6: Typology and spatial reasoning -- Exploiting space in German Sign Language -- Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries -- Gesture, space, grammar, and cognition -- Commentary: Is there a deictic of frame of reference? -- Index