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...

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