Spatial Language and Dialogue

Coventry, Kenny R. with Thora Tenbrink and John Bateman (Editors)

ISBN 10: 019955420X / ISBN 13: 9780199554201

Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York, 2009

Octavo. Very dark blue cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. This book has no discernable flaws. Whtie endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 216 pages. Illustrated throughout with charts and graphs. Dust Jacket - has a light rubbing on the upper edge of the front cover on about an inch right next to the head of the spine - jacket is otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. A lovely copy. Relatively uncommon. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009105

Inhaltsangabe:

Draws together state-of-the-art research in an increasingly popular field

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
Kenny Coventry is Director of the Cognition and Communication Research Centre, Northumbria University. His research focuses on the relationship between language and perception from a multidisciplinary perspective. He is the author, with Simon Garrod, of Saying, Seeing and Acting: The Psychological Semantics on Spatial Prepositions (2004).
Thora Tenbrink is a research fellow in linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany where she is principal investigator in two projects concerned with the empirical investigation and interpretation of natural spatial language and dialogue. Employing discourse analytic methods, she investigates linguistic reflections of cognitive principles underlying spatial and temporal language usage. She is the author of Space, Time, and the Use of Language (2007).
John Bateman is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany. His research focuses particularly on multilingual and multimodal linguistic description, and computational instantiations of linguistic theory. His current interests centre on the construction of computational dialogue systems for robot-human communication using linguistically-motivated ontologies. He has published widely in these areas and is the author of Multimodal Document Analysis and Genre (2008).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Spatial Language and Dialogue
Verlag: Oxford University Press, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Hard Cover
Zustand: NF
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: NF
Auflage: First Edition, First Printing.