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spatial language and dialogue
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 .