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Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions (Paperback)
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Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions (Paperback)
Series: Advances in Cognitive Linguistics
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Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities
to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track
entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple
of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to
achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store
cognitive maps for locating themselves and others, locations,
directions and routes. In this, humans are like many other species.
However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order
to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the
human ability for spatial representation apparently results in
rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of
representations for three-dimensional physical space. The present
volume brings together over 20 articles from leading scholars who
investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial
language. The volume is fully representative of the state of the
art in terms of language and space research, and points to new
directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice.
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