
Language Cognition and Space
The State of the Art and New Directions
Equinox Publishing Ltd
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2010
Book
Hardback
672 pages
978-1-84553-252-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 apparently results in rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of representations for three-dimensional physical space. The present volume brings together 19 articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. The volume is fully representative of 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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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1180 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-252-9 (9781845532529)
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E-Book
06/2010
1st Edition
Equinox Publishing Ltd
€80.99
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Persons
Evans: Bangor University, Chilton: University of East Anglia