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Have you ever asked for directions to reach an unknown destination? Or instead, have you ever given path descriptions to orient people in an unfamiliar environment? This is one of the most basic overlap areas between spatial reaso ... more
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Have you ever asked for directions to reach an unknown destination? Or instead, have you ever given path descriptions to orient people in an unfamiliar environment? This is one of the most basic overlap areas between spatial reasoning and language use. How in the world do people conceive of such a text genre, and what are all the conceptual and verbal processes involved inunderstanding/producing, in a word construeing this very specific subdomain of communicative competence? The present doctoral dissertation advocates that the complex dynamics at stake when Germans have to meet this challenge encompasses mental-linguistica ctivities that can be traced back to a three-faceted model: aknowledge dimension is responsible for creating a cognitive map topicture the scenery along and the line linking source and goal. Ad iscourse facet deals with a string of speech bubbles to organize in language the mental landscape highlighted by the cognitive mapat hand. And a virtual dialog model is in charge of establishing apartnership uniting the writer of the wayfinding instructions and her reader to agree on a perspective taking to handle their cooperation in absentia fruitfully enough.
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