Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person

Download or read book Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person written by Friedrich Lenz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 heart of deictics.