Spatial Language and Dialogue

Coventry, Kenny R. with Thora Tenbrink and John Bateman (Editors)

ISBN 10: 019955420X / ISBN 13: 9780199554201

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 2009

About this Item

Octavo. Very dark blue cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. This book has no discernable flaws. Whtie endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 216 pages. Illustrated throughout with charts and graphs. Dust Jacket - has a light rubbing on the upper edge of the front cover on about an inch right next to the head of the spine - jacket is otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. A lovely copy. Relatively uncommon.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spatial Language and Dialogue
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019955420X
• ISBN 13: 9780199554201
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: NF
• Dust Jacket Condition: NF
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Nature

About this title

Synopsis

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather than monologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research and robotics/AI demands an integrated examination of spatial language in dialogue settings. The present volume provides such integration for the first time and reports on the latest developments in this important field. Written in a way that will appeal to researchers across disciplines from graduate level upwards, the book sets the agenda for future research in spatial conceptualization and communication.

About the Author

Kenny Coventry is Director of the Cognition and Communication Research Centre, Northumbria University. His research focuses on the relationship between language and perception from a multidisciplinary perspective. He is the author, with Simon Garrod, of Saying, Seeing and Acting: The Psychological Semantics on Spatial Prepositions (2004).
Thora Tenbrink is a research fellow in linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany where she is principal investigator in two projects concerned with the empirical investigation and interpretation of natural spatial language and dialogue. Employing discourse analytic methods, she investigates linguistic reflections of cognitive principles underlying spatial and temporal language usage. She is the author of Space, Time, and the Use of Language (2007).
John Bateman is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany. His research focuses particularly on multilingual and multimodal linguistic description, and computational instantiations of linguistic theory. His current interests centre on the construction of computational dialogue systems for robot-human communication using linguistically-motivated ontologies. He has published widely in these areas and is the author of Multimodal Document Analysis and Genre (2008).