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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Explorations in language and space ; 7
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Explorations in language and space ; 7.
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This text deals with how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning in language and through gesture and pointing. The research draws on data from textual investigation using corpora, as well as from experiments of various kinds, such as psycholinguistic experiments and eye-tracking. |
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1. Introduction -- Windows In: Empirical Evidence of Construals of Spatial Meaning ; 2. Using Eye Movements and Spoken Discourse as Windows to Inner Space ; 3. The Development of Semantic Space for Pointing and Verbal Communication ; 4. Drawing Motion That Isn't There: Psycholinguistic Evidence on the Spatial Basis of Metaphorical Motion Verbs ; 5. Differential use of Dominant and Non-Dominant hands: A Window on Referential and Non-Referential Functions ; 6. Embodied Interaction and Semiotic Categorization: Communicative Gestures of a Girl with Patau Syndrome ; 7. Describing Adjacency Along the lateral Axis: The Complementary Roles of Speech and Gesture ; 8. Towards a Cognitive-Semiotic Typology of Motion Verbs ; 9. A Basic Level for the Encoding of Biological Motion ; 10. Danish Directional Adverbs: Ways of Profiling a Motion Event ; 11. How German and French Children Express Voluntary Motion ; 12. Narrow paths, Difficult Roads, and Long Ways: Travel Through Space and Metaphorical Meaning ; 13. The way-Construction and Cross-linguistic Variation in Syntax. Implications for Typological Theory ; 14. Spatial Adjectives in Dutch Child Language: Towards a usage-based Model of Adjective Acquisition ; 15. Negation and Approximation of Antonymic Meanings as Configuration Construals in Space ; References ; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-343) and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Speech and gesture.
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Speech and gesture. |
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Electronic books.
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Paradis, Carita.
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Hudson, Jean (Linguist)
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Magnusson, Ulf.
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Print version: Construal of spatial meaning. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199641635 (OCoLC)822959037 |
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9780191613142 (electronic book) |
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0191613142 (electronic book) |
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9780199641635 |
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0199641633 |
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