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

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.

About the author

Peter Auer ist Professor für Germanistische Linguistik an der Universität Freiburg, Direktor der "School of Language and Literature" des Freiburg Institut for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Auer (Editor), Marti Hilpert (Editor), Martin Hilpert (Editor), Anja Stukenbrock (Editor), Anja Stukenbrock et al (Editor), Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9783110311969
• ISBN: 978-3-11-031196-9
• No. of pages: 697
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 43 mm x 228 mm
• Weight: 1136 g
• Illustrations: 213 b/w and 14 col. ill.
• Series: linguae et literae; linguae & litterae; linguae & litterae; ISSN; linguae & litterae, 24
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics