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

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Space in Language and Linguistics

Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives

Edited by: Peter Auer , Martin Hilpert , Anja Stukenbrock and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 24 | linguae & litterae

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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.

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Peter Auer, U. Freiburg i.Br.; Martin Hilpert, U. de Neuchâtel; Anja Stukenbrock, U. Duisburg-Essen; Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, KU Leuven.

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Integrating the perspectives on language and space
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Peter Auer, Martin Hilpert, Anja Stukenbrock and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Section 1: Geography and variation across languages
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Disentangling geography from genealogy
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Michael Cysouw
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The vertical archipelago: Adding the third dimension to linguistic geography
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Johanna Nichols
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Language contact between geographic and mental space
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Walter Bisang
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Commentary: The notion of space in linguistic typology
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Ekkehard König
Section 2: Geography and variation within languages
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Ideology and discourse in the enregisterment of regional variation
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Barbara Johnstone
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Identity, ethnicity and place: The construction of youth language in London
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Paul Kerswill
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How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor in morphosyntactic variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world
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Bernd Kortmann
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Area formation in morphosyntax
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Elvira Glaser
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How much does geography influence language variation?
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John Nerbonne
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Commentary: Lost in space?
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Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Section 3: Interactional spaces
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Interactional space and the study of embodied talk-in-interaction
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Lorenza Mondada
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On the interactive achievement of space – and its possible meanings
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Heiko Hausendorf
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Plaza: Space or place?
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Jürgen Streeck
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Xi to vi: “Over that way, look!”: (Meta)spatial representation in an emerging (Mayan?) sign language
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John B. Haviland
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Commentary: What difference does space make for interaction and interaction for space?
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Anja Stukenbrock
Section 4: Mobile spaces
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Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task
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Pentti Haddington
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Rearranging (in) space
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Elwys De Stefani
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Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move
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Lorenza Mondada
Section 5: Mediated spaces
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Language, media, and digital landscapes
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Marco Jacquemet
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Space in computer-mediated communication
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Michael Beißwenger
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Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces
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Christian Mair and Stefan Pfänder
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Pointing within the abdomen: Local deixis under restricted conditions
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Susanne Uhmann
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Commentary: Making space
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Monica Heller
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Exploiting space in German Sign Language
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Gisela Fehrmann
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Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries
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Jürgen Bohnemeyer and Randi Tucker
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Gesture, space, grammar, and cognition
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Alan Cienki
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Commentary: Is there a deictic of frame of reference?
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Holger Diessel
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Index
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November 27, 2013

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November 15, 2013

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9783110311969

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Keywords for this book

Space; Geolinguistics; Interaction; Cognition

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Linguists, dialectologists

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Space in Language and Linguistics

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About this book

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Frontmatter

Contents

Integrating the perspectives on language and space

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

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?

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?

Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task

Rearranging (in) space

Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move

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

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

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