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Title Deictic conceptualisation of space, time, and person / edited by Friedrich Lenz
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 112
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 112. 0922-842X
Contents Deictic conceptualisation of space, time and person / Friedrich Lenz -- 'Addressee effects' in demonstrative systems / Sergio Meira -- Deictics in the conversational dyad / Konstanze Jungbluth -- Non-deictic uses of the deictic motion verbs kommen and gehen in German / Claudio Di Meola -- Origo, pointing, and conceptualization / Ellen Fricke -- Two ways of construing complex temporal structures / Christiane von Stutterheim, Mary Carroll and Wolfgang Klein -- Look here, what I am saying! / Thomas A. Fritz -- The subjective effects of negation and past subjunctive on deontic modals / Tanja Mortelmans -- Politeness distinctions in second person pronouns / Johannes Helmbrecht -- Deictic use of demonstrative pronouns in the Rigveda / Katharina Kupfer -- Towards a unified model of domain-bound reference / Manfred Consten -- Deixis and speech situation revisited / Heiko Jausenforf
Summary This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages. Special emphasis is placed on contrastive studies that take cognitive and cultural context into account. Both the empirical and theoretical studies focus on the ways in which spatial, temporal, personal and textual entities are conceptualised and referred to. The cognitive approach proves to be a promising perspective combining aspects of perception, reasoning and linguistic expression to reveal what seems to be at the very
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
SUBJECT Raum gnd
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Deixis.
Space and time in language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Deixis
Space and time in language
Raumvorstellung
Zeit
Pragmatik
Bewegungsverb
Sprachlogik
Personalpronomen
Demonstrativpronomen
Anredepronomen
Höflichkeitsform
Sprachliche Universalien
Deixis
Deixis.
Englisch.
Romanische Sprachen.
Deutsch.
Form Electronic book
Author Lenz, Friedrich, 1956-
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