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The Construal of Space in Language and Thought

Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR], 8

Edited by: Martin Pütz and René Dirven

Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton
Year:: 1996

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821611

Subjects

I-IV
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Language and the cognitive construal of space
Part A Space in language
- Section 1: Pointing, deixis, and distance
- Section 2: Conceptualizing space in prepositions and in morphology
Part Β Space as a cultural artifact
- Section 3: Can language use cope with space ?
- Section 4: Variability in the conceptualization of space
Part C Space as a bridge to other conceptual domains
- Section 5: From one meaning to another
  - Polarity and metaphor in German
  - Metaphors of ‘total enclosure’ grammaticizing into middle voice markers
- Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond
Part D Space as an organizing principle of thought
- Section 7: Discourse as space
- Section 8: Abstract worlds as space
List of contributors
Subject Index

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Language:: English

Format:: 23 x 15.5 cm

Pages Arabic:: 704

Illustrations Other:: Num. figs.

Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Year:: 1996

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ISBN:: 978-3-11-015243-2

Published:: 07 Nov 1996

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ISBN:: 978-3-11-082161-1

Published:: 11 Jul 2011

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