Eintrag

Titel

Spatial Language and Dialogue

Personen

Kenny R. Coventry, Thora Tenbrink, John A. Bateman

Jahr

2009

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Ort

Oxford

Reihe

Explorations in language and space

Band

3

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch

Schlagwörter

Dialog
Raum und Zeit

Beiträge

• Tenbrink: Identifying objects in English and German. A contrastive linguistic analysis of spatial reference

Abstract

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather than monologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research and robotics/AI demands an integrated examination of spatial language in dialogue settings. The present volume provides such integration for the first time and reports on the latest developments in this important field. Written in a way that will appeal to researchers across disciplines from graduate level upwards, the book sets the agenda for future research in spatial conceptualization and communication.

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