Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions - Vyvyan Evans
13 How spoken language and signed language structure space differently
Language, Cognition and Space - The State of the Art and New Directions - Vyvyan Evans
Leornard Talmy
University at Buff alo, State University of New York
Description
This chapter combines and relates new findings on spatial structuring in two areas of investigation, spoken language and signed language. Linguistic research to date has determined many of the factors that structure the spatial schemas found across spoken languages (e.g. Gruber 1965, Fillmore 1968, Leech 1969, Clark 1973, Bennett 1975, Herskovits 1982, Jackendoff 1983, Zubin and Svorou 1984, as well as the author himself, Talmy 1983, 2000a, 2000b).