Saying, seeing, and acting [[electronic resource] ] : the psychological semantics of spatial prepositions / / Kenny R. Coventry, Simon C. Garrod

• Autore: Coventry Kenny R
• Pubblicazione: Hove, East Sussex ; ; New York, : Psychology Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Prepositions; Semantics - Psychological aspects; Space and time in language; Psycholinguistics
• Altri autori: GarrodS. C (Simon C.)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; SAYING, SEEING, AND ACTING; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Figure acknowledgements; PART I: SAYING, SEEING, AND ACTING: BACKGROUND TO THE DOMAIN; 1. Introduction to the domain; Spatial prepositions: classifications and boundaries; Saying, seeing, and acting: précis of the argument; 2. Saying: spatial prepositions and lexical semantics; Spatial language, spatial relations, and minimal specification; Herskovits: ideal meanings, use types, and pragmatic principles; Lakoff, Brugman, and . . . dangerous things ; Embodiment, action, and spatial languageSummary; 3. Grounding language in perception: from "saying" to "seeing and acting"; The geometry of spatial relations; Perceptual approaches to spatial relations; The importance of action: extra-geometric relations considered; The functional geometric framework; Perceptual origins of the functional geometric framework; Summary and conclusions; PART II: SAYING, SEEING, AND ACTING: EVIDENCE FOR THE FUNCTIONAL GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK; 4. Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 1: the so-called topological prepositions; In; On; Summary ; 5. Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 2: which way up is up? The projective prepositionsReference frames and projective terms; Geometric and dynamic-kinematic routines; Conceptual knowledge and context effects; Summary and conclusions; 6. Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 3: other prepositions-proximity, coincidence, and being between; Proximity terms: how near is near?; Near and far; At; Between; Summary; PART III: PUTTING, SEEING, AND ACTING TOGETHER: THE FUNCTIONAL GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK IN ACTION; 7. Putting it all together ; The need for situation models: the general argumentThe functional geometric framework in action: multiple constraints and spatial language comprehension; Towards weighting constraints by preposition: delineating routines and functions by terms; Summary; 8. Cross-linguistic and developmental implications; The prelinguistic origins of the functional geometric framework; The acquisition of spatial prepositions in English; Functional geometry in languages other than English; Linguistic relativity and the underlying structure of spatial representations for language; Summary ; 9. Extensions, links, and conclusionsThe functional geometric framework, embodiment, and situated action; Computational modelling and the neural correlates of spatial language comprehension and production; Metaphorical uses of spatial prepositions and underlying models; The functional geometric framework and other syntactic categories; Conclusions; References; Author index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 stat
• Titolo autorizzato: Saying, seeing, and acting
• ISBN: 1-138-87735-2; 1-135-43199-X; 1-280-07791-3; 0-203-64152-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783989503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Essays in cognitive psychology.