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ISBN 10: 184169116X
ISBN 13: 978-1841691169
Author: Kenny Coventry, Simon Garrod
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 status of expressions of spatial location in contentious cases. The terms of the debate are established and contextualised in Part One. In the Second Section, systematic experimental evidence is drawn upon to demonstrate specific covariances between spatial world and spatial language. The authors go on to give an original account of the functional and geometric constraints on which comprehension and human action among spatially related objects is based. Part Three looks at the interaction of these constraints to create a truly dynamic functional geometric framework for the meaningful use of spatial prepositions. Fascinating to anyone whose work touches on psycholinguistics, this book represents a thorough and incisive contribution to debates in the cognitive psychology of language.
Saying Seeing and Acting 1st Table of contents:
Part I Saying, Seeing, and Acting: Background to the Domain
1 Introduction to the domain
Spatial prepositions: classifications and boundaries
Classifications
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 language
Summary
3 Grounding language in perception: from “saying” to “seeing and acting”
The geometry of spatial relations
Perceptual approaches to spatial relations
Visual routines
Spatial template construction
The attention vector sum model
The importance of action: extra-geometric relations considered
The function of spatial language
Functional relations and force dynamics
The functional geometric framework
Geometric and dynamic-kinematic routines
Object knowledge: stored representations and contextual factors guide routines
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
Evidence for the dynamic-kinematic routine of location control
Conceptual knowledge and context effects
On
Evidence for the dynamic-kinematic routine of location control
Conceptual knowledge and context effects
Summary
5 Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 2: which way up is up? The projective prepositions
Reference frames and projective terms
Properties of reference frames
Reference frame activation and assignment
Geometric and dynamic-kinematic routines
Geometric routines
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 Saying, Seeing, and Acting Together: The Functional Geometric Framework in Action
7 Putting it all together
The need for situation models: the general argument
Pinning down reference
Mental models
Situation models and language processing
Models as surrogate representations
Models as interfaces between language and the world
The 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
Physical properties of objects, such as permanence
Causality
Containment
Gravity and support
Stereotypic functions of objects
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 conclusions
The 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
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