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Referring to Space

Gunter Senft
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      The first aim of this anthology is to illustrate the variety of resources that Austronesian and Papuan languages offer their speakers for referring to space. The languages here described are spread from Madagascar to Tonga, and there are many differences between them. They also offer a striking contrast to Indo-European languages, and call into question universalistic claims about human spatial concepts and spatial reference based solely on evidence fromIndo-European languages and their speakers.There are, however, striking parallels between the kinds of systems that languages offer and that their speakers employ when referring to space. Understanding the differences in the ways that coordinate systems are used requires not only linguistic, but also cultural, historical, and geographical knowledge. Thus the second aim of the collection is to illustrate the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of space if we are to understand the underlying logic of conceptions ofspace manifest in verbal expressions.The first three papers offer overviews of the conception of space in Austronesian languages and analyse the coordinate systems employed for spatial reference. The seven papers which follow offer anthropological linguistic descriptions of directionals and locatives in Austronesian and Papuan languages, and the last three contributions offer a more structurally-oriented perspective.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gunter Senft EAN: 9780198236474 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 668 g HEIGHT: 242 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-11-27 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Miscellaneous, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 161 cm SPINE:

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      Pacific Ocean, Oceanic and Polynesian languages, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology

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      The first aim of this anthology is to illustrate the variety of resources that Austronesian and Papuan languages offer their speakers for referring to space. The languages here described are spread from Madagascar to Tonga, and there are many differences between them. They also offer a striking contrast to Indo-European languages, and call into question universalistic claims about human spatial concepts and spatial reference based solely on evidence fromIndo-European languages and their speakers.There are, however, striking parallels between the kinds of systems that languages offer and that their speakers employ when referring to space. Understanding the differences in the ways that coordinate systems are used requires not only linguistic, but also cultural, historical, and geographical knowledge. Thus the second aim of the collection is to illustrate the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of space if we are to understand the underlying logic of conceptions ofspace manifest in verbal expressions.The first three papers offer overviews of the conception of space in Austronesian languages and analyse the coordinate systems employed for spatial reference. The seven papers which follow offer anthropological linguistic descriptions of directionals and locatives in Austronesian and Papuan languages, and the last three contributions offer a more structurally-oriented perspective.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gunter Senft EAN: 9780198236474 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 668 g HEIGHT: 242 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-11-27 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Miscellaneous, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 161 cm SPINE:

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      Pacific Ocean, Oceanic and Polynesian languages, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology

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