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Tables of Contents for The Construal of Space in Language and Thought
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Language and the cognitive construal of space
xi
Martin Putz
PART A: SPACE IN LANGUAGE
3
208
Section 1: Pointing, deixis, and distance
3
70
The Japanese verbal suffixes as indicators of distance and proximity
3
26
Haruko Minegishi Cook
Demonstratives as locating expressions
29
20
Walter De Mulder
`Here' and `there' in Croatian: A case study of an urban standard variety
49
14
Milena Zic Fuchs
Prosodic and paralinguistic signals of distance
63
10
Janina Ozga
Section 2: Conceptualizing space in prepositions and in morphology
73
138
The German uber
73
36
Elena Bellavia
The separability of German uber -: A cognitive approach
109
26
Robert B. Dewell
Prepositional prototypes
135
32
Sally Rice
Space and movement in the English verb system
167
30
Carlos Inchaurralde
The representation of space in English derivational morphology
197
14
Dieter Kastovsky
PART B: SPACE AS A CULTURAL ARTIFACT
211
162
Section 3: Can language use cope with space?
211
76
Spatial deixis in Afrikaans dictionaries
211
28
Willem J. Botha
What good are locationals, anyway?
239
30
Eugene H. Casad
Iconicity in verbal descriptions of space
269
18
Karin Wenz
Section 4: Variability in the conceptualization of space
287
86
The syntax and semantics of locativised nouns in Zulu
287
20
John R. Taylor
Distinguishing the notion `place' in an Oceanic language
307
22
Deborah Hill
The linguistic, cognitive and cultural variables of the conceptualization of space
329
16
Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Rethinking some universals of spatial language using controlled comparison
345
28
Sabine Neumann
Thomas Widlok
PART C: SPACE AS A BRIDGE TO OTHER CONCEPTUAL DOMAINS
373
180
Section 5: From one meaning to another
373
44
Polarity and metaphor in German
373
22
Carlo Serra Borneto
Metaphors of `total enclosure' grammaticizing into middle voice markers
395
22
Susan Strauss
Section 6: From space to time, events, and beyond
417
136
The story of -ing: A subjective perspective
417
38
Marjolijn Verspoor
The temporal use of Hawaiian directional particles
455
12
Kenneth William Cook
The spatial structuring of events: A study of Polish perfectivizing prefixes
467
24
Ewa Dabrowska
Temporal meanings of spatial prepositions in Polish: The case of przez and w
491
18
Agata Kochanska
Viewpoint and subjectivity in English inversion
509
18
Heidrun Dorgeloh
How do we mentally localize different types of spatial concepts?
527
26
Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
PART D: SPACE AS AN ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE OF THOUGHT
553
138
Section 7: Discourse as space
553
60
Space in dramatic discourse
553
18
Vimala Herman
How space structures discourse
571
28
Lorenza Mondada
The (meta-) textual space
599
14
Winfried Noth
Section 8: Abstract worlds as space
613
78
From one meaning to the next: The effects of polysemous relationships in lexical learning
613
36
Steven Frisson
Dominiek Sandra
Frank Brisard
Hubert Cuyckens
Metaphorical scenarios of science
649
30
Olaf Jakel
Language, space and theography: The case of height vs. depth
679
12
Jean-Pierre van Noppen
List of contributors
691
6
Subject Index
697