Space in Languages
：Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories
( Typological Studies in Language )
Publication subTitle ：Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories
Publication series ： Typological Studies in Language
Author： Maya Hickmann Stéphane Robert
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2006
E-ISBN: 9789027293558
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027229779
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
The wealth of scholarship contained in each chapter of this insightful book cannot be expressed within the space limits of my review. The topic of space has been highlighted from many different perspectives which together offer a panoramic view and at the same time a fine-grained treatment of space in many languages and from many theoretical persuasions. The scientific value and the in-depth lines of argumentation of the contributions are impressive. The three sections of the volume investigate many aspects of the phenomena under scrutiny and the proposals stemming from each section overlap among them, thus contributing to interdisciplinarity and offering the readers a multi-faceted picture of space. This is an excellent book which I strongly recommend to everyone with an interest in understanding how the notion of space interacts with language and cognition.