Coventry K.R., Tenbrink T., Bateman J.A. (eds.) Spatial language and Dialogue

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 019955420X; ISBN13: 978-0199554201.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.Introduction. Spatial Language and Dialogue: Navigating the DomainWhy Dialogue Methods are Important for Investigating Spatial Language
Spatial Dialogue between Partners with Mismatched Abilities
Consistency in Successive Spatial Utterances
An Interactionally Situated Analysis of What Prompts Shift in the Motion Verbs Come and Go in a Map Task
Perspective Alignment in Spatial Language
Formulating Spatial Descriptions across Various Dialogue Contexts
Identifying Objects in English and German: a Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Spatial Reference
Explanations in Gesture, Diagram, and Word
A Computational Model for the Representation and Processing of Shape in Coverbal Iconic Gestures
Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions
Grounding Information in Route Explanation Dialogues
Telling Rolland Where to Go: HRI Dialogues on Route Navigation