Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to the handbook series v
3. Preface ix
4. Table of Contents xi
5. 1. Doing space: The pragmatics of language and space 1
6. I. Describing space through language
7. 2. Deictic reference in space 23
8. 3. The conceptualization of space in signed languages: Placing the signer in narratives 63
9. 4. Spatiality in written texts 95
10. 5. Interactional onomastics: Place names as malleable resources 125
11. 6. Describing motion events 153
12. 7. Discourses of place: The formation of space and place through discourse 181
13. 8. Imaginary spaces in storytelling 209
14. 9. Developmental perspectives on doing talk about space 251
15. II. Spatial organization of social interaction
16. 10. Encounters in public places: The establishment of interactional space in face-to-face openings 281
17. 11. Interactional spaces in stationary, mobile, video-mediated and virtual encounters 317
18. 12. The pragmatics of gesture and space 363
19. 13. Distance and closeness: The im/politeness of space in communication 399
20. III. Communicative resources of constructed spaces
21. 14. Architecture-for-interaction: Built, designed and furnished space for communicative purposes 431
22. 15. Building, dwelling, and interacting: Steps in the evolution of public space from Paleolithic to present 473
23. 16. The pragmatics of linguistic landscapes 523
24. 17. The pragmatics of written texts in space 549
25. 18. Co-presence and beyond: Spatial configurations of communication in virtual environments 579
26. IV. Pragmatics across space and cultures
27. 19. Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space 611
28. 20. Pragmatic variation across national varieties of pluricentric languages 637
29. 21. Mapping perceptions and knowledge of language: Societal multilingualism and its sociopragmatic grounding 679
30. Bionotes 715
31. Author index 727
32. Subject index 735