This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different commun...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how an informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into temporal systems of languages....Lasīt vairāk
This book is a critical contribution to the conversation surrounding sociocultural-linguistic uses of the chronotope, demonstrating not only its applicability to theorizing migration, but also to theorizing language and social life more broadly....Lasīt vairāk
This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human and non-human...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores theories of space and place in relation to autonomy in language learning. Encompassing a wide range of linguistically and culturally diverse learning contexts, this edited collection brings together research papers from academics...Lasīt vairāk
When we speak about the spatial locations of objects are we simply saying where they are, or are we also pointing to something about their function? This is the question explored in Saying, Seeing and Acting....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Apr-2009, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199554201)
This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. The book reports on the latest developments in the field of spatial language and sets an agenda for future research on spatial conceptualization and communication in cogni...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jan-2009, Izdevniecība: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444309645)
Time is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and action. All languages have developed rich means to express various facets of time, such as bare time spans, their position on the time line, or their duration. This volume explores what we know abo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-May-2007, Izdevniecība: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110198829)
How are expressions such as before and after, in front and behind actually used in natural discourse - does their application reflect a conceptual dependency relation? This book addresses this question from a different perspective, drawing together...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Sep-2006, Izdevniecība: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110197754)
Marquesan, an endangered Polynesian language, is remarkable because its speakers use a spatial orientation system based on local landmarks in the environment to describe spatial relations even in micro-level space. This volume is an empirical analys...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Aug-2003, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199260195)
The fast-growing interdisciplinary research area of language and space investigates how language and representations of space are linked in information processing systems, like the brain. This is the first title in a new series at the forefront of...Lasīt vairāk
This book looks at the relationship between biblical Hebrew verbs and the passage of time in narrative. It offers a summary of previous studies and theories, and argues that one possible way of understanding the fundamental meanings of Hebrew verbs...Lasīt vairāk
This study brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other gesteral systems, and how they exploit the space in which they are conveyed....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-1980, Izdevniecība: Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH & Co KG, ISBN-13: 9783111346069)
The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented....Lasīt vairāk
