Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding
of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and
human interaction with those objects. This is the thesis rigorously
explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not
only for our theoretical comprehension of spatial relations but our
ability to intercede with efficacy in the world of spatially
related objects. Only the phenomenon of functionality can
adequately account for what even the simplest of everyday
experiences show to be the technically problematic, but still
meaningful status of expressions of spatial location in contentious
cases. The terms of the debate are established and contextualised
in Part One. In the Second Section, systematic experimental
evidence is drawn upon to demonstrate specific covariances between
spatial world and spatial language. The authors go on to give an
original account of the functional and geometric constraints on
which comprehension and human action among spatially related
objects is based. Part Three looks at the interaction of these
constraints to create a truly dynamic functional geometric
framework for the meaningful use of spatial prepositions.
Fascinating to anyone whose work touches on psycholinguistics, this
book represents a thorough and incisive contribution to debates in
the cognitive psychology of language.
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