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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 by the
- ISSN
- 1895-6106
- eISSN
- 1898-4436
- DOI
- 10.1515/lpp-2012-0010
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Abstract This article proposes a model for route description dialogues based on the integration of the theories about route directions with those related to specific spatial instructions. This proposal is based empirically on a corpus of spoken Italian. The analysis of the corpus has shown that the basic dialogue strategy proposed by previous researchers requires further integration and elaboration. Also the model of spatial language developed in cognitive linguistics applies to the description of the giver�s instructions and directions, despite the fact that the literature in the field often overlooks this approach. This way of accounting for route descriptions is suitable to explain the lexicalization of the conceptualization of the displacements the follower must accomplish. A model of dialogue partitions integrated with the cognitive modelling of spatial language is proposed and supported by examples from the linguistic data.
Journal
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics – de Gruyter
Published: Nov 1, 2012