Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Integrating the perspectives on language and space 1
4. Section 1: Geography and variation across languages
5. Disentangling geography from genealogy 21
6. The vertical archipelago: Adding the third dimension to linguistic geography 38
7. Language contact between geographic and mental space 61
8. Commentary: The notion of space in linguistic typology 101
9. Section 2: Geography and variation within languages
10. Ideology and discourse in the enregisterment of regional variation 107
11. Identity, ethnicity and place: The construction of youth language in London 128
12. How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor in morphosyntactic variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world 165
13. Area formation in morphosyntax 195
14. How much does geography influence language variation? 222
15. Commentary: Lost in space? 240
16. Section 3: Interactional spaces
17. Interactional space and the study of embodied talk-in-interaction 247
18. On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings 276
19. Plaza: Space or place? 304
20. Xi to vi: “Over that way, look!”: (Meta)spatial representation in an emerging (Mayan?) sign language 334
21. Commentary: What difference does space make for interaction and interaction for space? 401
22. Section 4: Mobile spaces
23. Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task 411
24. Rearranging (in) space 434
25. Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move 464
26. Section 5: Mediated spaces
27. Language, media, and digital landscapes 473
28. Space in computer-mediated communication 494
29. Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces 529
30. Pointing within the abdomen: Local deixis under restricted conditions 557
31. Commentary: Making space 601
32. Section 6: Typology and spatial reasoning
33. Exploiting space in German Sign Language 607
34. Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries 637
35. Gesture, space, grammar, and cognition 667
36. Commentary: Is there a deictic of frame of reference? 687
37. Index 693