Spatial Language and Dialogue (Explorations in Language and Space, Vol 3)

✍ Scribed by Kenny R. Coventry, Thora Tenbrink, John A. Bateman, editors

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather than monologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research and robotics/AI demands an integrated examination of spatial language in dialogue settings. The present volume provides such integration for the first time and reports on the latest developments in this important field. Written in a way that will appeal to researchers across disciplines from graduate level upwards, the book sets the agenda for future research in spatial conceptualization and communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
1 Introduction—Spatial Language and Dialogue: Navigating the Domain......Page 12
2 Why Dialogue Methods are Important for Investigating Spatial Language......Page 19
3 Spatial Dialogue between Partners with Mismatched Abilities......Page 34
4 Consistency in Successive Spatial Utterances......Page 51
5 An Interactionally Situated Analysis of What Prompts Shift in the Motion Verbs Come and Go in a Map Task......Page 67
6 Perspective Alignment in Spatial Language......Page 81
7 Formulating Spatial Descriptions across Various Dialogue Contexts......Page 100
8 Identifying Objects in English and German: a Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Spatial Reference......Page 115
9 Explanations in Gesture, Diagram, and Word......Page 130
10 A Computational Model for the Representation and Processing of Shape in Coverbal Iconic Gestures......Page 143
11 Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions......Page 158
12 Grounding Information in Route Explanation Dialogues......Page 177
13 Telling Rolland Where to Go: HRI Dialogues on Route Navigation......Page 188
References......Page 202
F......Page 218
L......Page 219
S......Page 220
Z......Page 221
C......Page 222
G......Page 223
M......Page 224
Q......Page 225
S......Page 226
W......Page 227

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингвистика и лингвоконцептология;