Language Cognition and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions (Advances in Cognitive Linguistics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184553252X ISBN 13: 9781845532529

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2010

Synopsis

Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store ‘cognitive maps’ for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the human ability for spatial representation results in rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of representations for three-dimensional physical space.

Language, Cognition and Space brings together nineteen articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. This volume represents the state of the art in terms of language and space research and points to new directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice.

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About the Authors

Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University ans author of numerous books relating to cognitive linguistics. These include How words Mean. The Sturcture of Time, The Semantics of English Prepostions (with Andrea Tyler), Cognitive Linguistics (with Melanie Green) and a Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics.
Paul Chilton is Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He has published widely in the areas of cognitive linguistics and discourse studies. His previous books include Security Metaphors and Analysing Political Discourse. His most recent articles explore a geometric approach to the deictic concepts of space, time and modality.

Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University. He has written and edited a number of books on cognitive linguistics including: The Semantics of English Prepositions (with Andrea Tyler), The Structure of Time, Cognitive Linguistics (with Melanie Green), and The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (co-edited with Ben Bergen and Joerg Zinken), published by Equinox. Paul Chilton is Professor of Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely in the areas of cognitive linguistics and discourse studies including the following books: Security Metaphors: Cold War Discourse from Containment to Common European Home, Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice, and Space, Time and Distance: the Geometry of Discourse.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184553252X
• ISBN 13: 9781845532529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Evans Vyvyan, Chilton Paul