New Book Release

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of language use in space. It consists of four parts:

- The first part covers the various practices of describing space through language, including spatial references in spoken interaction or in written texts, the description of motion events as well as the creation of imaginative spaces in storytelling.

- The second part surveys aspects of the spatial organization of face-to-face communication including not only spatial arrangements of small groups in interaction but also the spatial dimension of sign language and gestures.

- The third part is devoted to the communicative resources of constructed spaces and the ways in which these facilitate and shape communication.

- Part four, finally, is devoted to pragmatics across space and cultures, i.e. the ways in which language use differs across language varieties, languages and cultures.

1. Doing space: The pragmatics of language and space

Heiko Hausendorf and Andreas H. Jucker

I. DESCRIBING SPACE THROUGH LANGUAGE

2. Deictic reference in space

Peter Auer and Anja Stukenbrock

3. The conceptualization of space in signed languages: Placing the signer in narratives

Sherman Wilcox, Rocío Martínez and Diego Morales

4. Spatiality in written texts

Christoph Schubert

5. Interactional onomastics: Place names as malleable resources

Thomas Debois and Elwys De Stefani

6. Describing motion events

Johannes Gerwien and Christiane von Stutterheim

7. Discourses of place: The formation of space and place through discourse

Félix Danos

8. Imaginary spaces in storytelling

Vivien Heller

9. Developmental perspectives on doing talk about space

Anna Filipi

II. SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIAL INTERACTION

10. Encounters in public places: The establishment of interactional space in face-to-face openings

Federica D’Antoni, Thomas Debois, Elwys De Stefani, Philipp Hänggi, Lorenza Mondada, Julia Schneerson and Burak S. Tekin

11. Interactional spaces in stationary, mobile, video-mediated and virtual encounters

Pentti Haddington and Tuire Oittinen

12. The pragmatics of gesture and space

Ellen Fricke

13. Distance and closeness: The im/politeness of space in communication

Lucien Brown and Iris Hübscher

III. COMMUNICATIVE RESOURCES OF CONSTRUCTED SPACES

14. Architecture-for-interaction: Built, designed and furnished space for communicative purposes

Heiko Hausendorf and Reinhold Schmitt

15. Building, dwelling, and interacting: Steps in the evolution of public space from Paleolithic to present

Kenan Hochuli and Jürgen Streeck

16. The pragmatics of linguistic landscapes

Maria Rosario Yumul-Florendo and Sebastian Muth

17. The pragmatics of written texts in space

Wolfgang Kesselheim and Christoph Hottiger

18. Co-presence and beyond: Spatial configurations of communication in virtual environments

Nathalie Meyer and Andreas H. Jucker

IV. PRAGMATICS ACROSS SPACE AND CULTURES

19. Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space

Jenny Nilsson, Jan Lindström, Love Bohman, Catrin Norrby, Klara Skogmyr Marian and Camilla Wide

20. Pragmatic variation across national varieties of pluricentric languages

Klaus P. Schneider and J. César Félix-Brasdefer

21. Mapping perceptions and knowledge of language: Societal multilingualism and its sociopragmatic grounding

Christoph Purschke and Mirjam Schmalz