Language, Cognition and Space ─ The State of the Art and New Directions

Edited by Evans (linguistics, Bangor U.) and Chilton (linguistics, Lancaster U.), this work provides an overview of work in cognitively-oriented linguistics on the relationship between language and space. Nineteen papers are organized into sections focusing on the perceptual basis of spatial representation; the interaction between language and spatial cognition; typological, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic approaches to spatial representation; theoretical approaches to spatial representation in language; spatial representation in specific languages; space in sign-language and gesture; language and motion; and the relation between space, time, and modality. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University. He has written and edited a number of books on cognitive linguistics including: The Semantics of English Prepositions (with Andrea Tyler), The Structure of Time, Cognitive Linguistics (with Melanie Green), and The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (co-edited with Ben Bergen and Joerg Zinken), published by Equinox. Paul Chilton is Professor of Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely in the areas of cognitive linguistics and discourse studies including the following books: Security Metaphors: Cold War Discourse from Containment to Common European Home, Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice, and Space, Time and Distance: the Geometry of Discourse.