The Space of English
Author: David Spurr
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9783823361220
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Space in Language and Linguistics
Author: Peter Auer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 3110312026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Space in Languages
Author: Maya Hickmann
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2006-05-16
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9027293554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpace is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the collective aim of addressing fundamental questions at the forefront of the current literature: the nature of space in language, the linguistic relativity of space, the relation between spatial language and cognition. Linguistic analyses highlight the multidimensional and heterogeneous nature of space, while also showing the existence of a set of types, parameters, and principles organizing the considerable diversity of linguistic systems and accounting for mechanisms of diachronic change. Findings concerning spatial perception and cognition suggest the existence of two distinct systems governing linguistic and non-linguistic representations, that only partially overlap in some pathologies, but they also show the strong impact of language-specific factors on the course of language acquisition and cognitive development.
Space, Time and Language in Plutarch
Author: Aristoula Georgiadou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 3110539470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Space and time' have been key concepts of investigation in the humanities in recent years. In the field of Classics in particular, they have led to the fresh appraisal of genres such as epic, historiography, the novel and biography, by enabling a close focus on how ancient texts invest their representations of space and time with a variety of symbolic and cultural meanings. This collection of essays by a team of international scholars seeks to make a contribution to this rich interdisciplinary field, by exploring how space and time are perceived, linguistically codified and portrayed in the biographical and philosophical work of Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd centuries CE). The volume’s aim is to show how philological approaches, in conjunction with socio-cultural readings, can shed light on Plutarch’s spatial terminology and clarify his conceptions of time, especially in terms of the ways in which he situates himself in his era’s fascination with the past. The volume’s intended readership includes Classicists, intellectual and cultural historians and scholars whose field of expertise embraces theoretical study of space and time, along with the linguistic strategies used to portray them in literary or historical texts.
The Social Space of Language
Author: Farina Mir
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0520262697
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If I Were an Astronaut
Author: Eric Braun
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 1404855343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses activities astronauts do while they're in space.
Scribes of Space
Author: Matthew Boyd Goldie
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-03-15
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1501734067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScribes of Space posits that the conception of space—the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move—underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval Britain altered the ideas about geographical space they inherited from the ancient world. In tracing the causes and nature of these developments, and how geographical space was consequently understood, Goldie focuses on the intersection of medieval science, theology, and literature, deftly bringing a wide range of writings—scientific works by Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, the Merton School of Oxford Calculators, and Thomas Bradwardine; spiritual, poetic, and travel writings by John Lydgate, Robert Henryson, Margery Kempe, the Mandeville author, and Geoffrey Chaucer—into conversation. This pairing of physics and literature uncovers how the understanding of spatial boundaries, locality, elevation, motion, and proximity shifted across time, signaling the emergence of a new spatial imagination during this era.
Spatial Orientation
Author: Herbert Pick
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1461593255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do people know where in the world they are? How do they find their way about? These are the sort of questions about spatial orientation with which this book is concerned. Staying spatially oriented is a pervasive aspect of all be havior. Animals must find their way through their environ ment searching efficiently for food and returning to their home areas and many species have developed very sophisticated sensing apparatus for helping them do this. Even little children know their way around quite complex environments. They remember where they put things and are able to retrieve them with little trouble. Adults in societies across the world have developed complex navigational systems for help ing them find their way over long distances with few dis tinctive landmarks. People across the world use their langu ages to communicate about spatial orientation in problems of simple direction giving and spatial descriptions as well as problems of long range navigation.
The English Utilitarians
Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe City and the Senses
Author: Alexander Cowan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0754605140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume take an interdisciplinary and wide ranging look at urban history through the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. By spanning pre-industrial and modern cities it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience.
