Practical theories and empirical practice : a linguistic perspective / / edited by Andrea C. Schalley

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.4
• Soggetto topico: Competence and performance (Linguistics); Communicative competence; Speech acts (Linguistics); Interaction (Philosophy); Linguistics - Methodology; Psycholinguistics
• Altri autori: SchalleyAndrea C. <1972->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Practical Theories and Empirical Practice; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; Practical theories and empirical practice - facets of a complex interaction; 1 Linguistics - the 'scientific' study of language; 2 Methodological facets; 3 The volume and its chapters: Thematic perspective; 4 The volume and its chapters: Methodological considerations; 4.1 Contextualisation; 4.2 Methods and meta-theory; 4.2.1 How can we arrive at convincing evidence?; 4.2.2 What can we learn for successful cross-linguistic comparison? ; 4.2.2.1 Cross-linguistic elicitation tasks. The ideal cross-linguistic elicitation task is a task that is designed for usage with all languages and all cultures, that is well-designed with regard to the aims it wants to achieve, easy to administer, and th4.2.2.2 Comparative basis; 4.2.3 What might the future hold for linguistic research?; 5 Conclusion; References; The embodiment of linguistic meaning; 1. Language comprehension is based on complex and specific visual imagery; 2. Imagery during sentence comprehension drives action planning processes ; 3. Sentence comprehension draws upon the understander's own action knowledge4. Problems, questions, and implications; 5. Conclusions; References; Infants' encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure; 1. Prelinguistic event representation and linguistic coding; 2. Tracking of agents and spaces in a ditransitive give-and-take-event in the first year of life; 3. Conclusions and outlook; References; Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila: stability and change in two lexical domainsof sensory perception; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 The use of stimuli in linguistic investigation1.2 The Trobriand Islanders and their language Kilivila; 2. Kilivila colour terms in 1983 and in 2008; 2.1 Method, consultants and results of my 1983 study on Kilivila colour terms; 2.2 Results of my 2008 study on Kilivila colour terms; 2.2.1 Consultants and methods; 2.2.2 Results; 2.3 Colour terms in Kilivila then and now; 3. Pacific Islanders talking about taste then and now; 3.1 Taste terms gathered in 1982 and 1983; 3.2 My 2008 study on Kilivila taste terms; 3.2.1 Methods and consultants; 3.2.2 Results ; 3.3 Pacific Islanders talking about taste then and now4. An aside with an excursus to the Torres Straits Islands; 5. Concluding remarks; References; Yucatec demonstratives in interaction; 1. Introduction; 2. A sketch of the expression of spatial deixis in Yucatec; 3. Demonstratives in spontaneous interactions: Hanks (1990, 2005); 4. Demonstratives in elicited productions: The questionnaire study; Anchor 92; 4.2 The semantics of the non-immediate forms; 4.3 The role of attention direction; 5. Discussion; References; Many languages, one knowledge base; 1. Motivation and background ; 2. Application domain: social cognition
• Sommario/riassunto: In this chapter I examine the ways in which languages encode the distinction between location and place, generally, and between objects and their uses in space, in particular. I develop a type-theoretic semantic formalism to model the notion of 'function', whether associated with a region or location on the one hand, or a class of objects, such as artifactual devices, on the other hand. The functional value of an object is encoded as a modal expression in the Telic role of the Qualia Structure associated with a lexical item. Finally, I illustrate how this representation helps explain the lingu
• Titolo autorizzato: Practical theories and empirical practice
• ISBN: 9781283902311; 1283902311; 9789027272454; 902727245X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973154303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human Cognitive Processing