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Diessel H, Coventry KR. Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review. Front Psychol. 2020;11:555265doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555265.
Diessel, H., & Coventry, K. R. (2020). Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review. Frontiers in psychology, 11555265. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555265
Diessel, Holger, and Coventry, Kenny R. "Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review." Frontiers in psychology vol. 11 (2020): 555265. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555265
Diessel H, Coventry KR. Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review. Front Psychol. 2020 Nov 25;11:555265. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555265. eCollection 2020. PMID: 33324275; PMCID: PMC7723831.
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Front Psychol. 2020 Nov 25;11:555265. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555265. eCollection 2020.

Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review.

Frontiers in psychology

Holger Diessel, Kenny R Coventry

Affiliations

  1. Department of English, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
  2. School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33324275 PMCID: PMC7723831 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555265

Abstract

This paper offers a review of research on demonstratives from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, we consider the role of demonstratives in current research on language universals, language evolution, language acquisition, multimodal communication, signed language, language and perception, language in interaction, spatial imagery, and discourse processing. Traditionally, demonstratives are analyzed as a particular class of spatial deictics. Yet, a number of recent studies have argued that space is largely irrelevant to deixis and that demonstratives are primarily used for social and interactive purposes. Synthesizing findings in the literature, we conclude that demonstratives are a very special class of linguistic items that are foundational to both spatial and social aspects of language and cognition.

Copyright © 2020 Diessel and Coventry.

Keywords: deixis; demonstrative; embodied cognition; joint attention; language acquisition; language universals; peripersonal action space; spatial cognition

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