Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Coventry, Kenny R.

Publication

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Psychology Press, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

Garrod, S. C. (Simon C.)

Description

xii, 201 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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. The terms of the debate are established and contextualised in part one. In the second part 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. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Essays in cognitive psychology

Uniform Title

Essays in cognitive psychology

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Prepositions
• Semantics > Psychological aspects
• Space and time in language
• Psycholinguistics
• Semantics
• Psycholinguistics
• Semantics
• psycholinguistics
• semantics
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Prepositions
• Semantics > Psychological aspects
• Space and time in language
• Lokale Präposition
• Psycholinguistik
• Semantik
• Wissensrepräsentation
• Kognitive Semantik
• Ruimtelijke waarneming
• Voorzetsels
• Semantiek

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction to the domain -- Saying : spatial prepositions and lexical semantics -- Grounding language in perception : from "saying" to "seeing and acting" -- Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 1. The so-called topological prepositions -- Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 2. Which way up is up? : the projective prepositions -- Experimental evidence for the functional geometric framework 3. Other prepositions : proximity, coincidence and being between -- Putting it all together -- Cross-linguistic and developmental implications -- Extensions, links, and conclusions -- The functional geometric framework and embodiment.

ISBN

• 184169116X
• 9781841691169
• 9780203641521
• 0203641523

LCCN

• 2003013938
• 9781841691169

OCLC

• ocm52195505
• 52195505
• SCSB-8819219

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library