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    Spatial Operations in Deixis Cognition A

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    Spatial operations in deixis, cognition, and culture: where to orient oneself in Belhare ‘Thequestion want oraise‘Whereto orient ones address two sues sit asks forthe type of dicted within which spatial information transmitted. This ise motivated by my attempts to understand og Bethe people mean when the tell ou, for insane Lo mone something ‘oa ‘up fo its by no means obvows where toa is Sosy te gant tion looks for the domain in which spat information i enced ant the telation ofthis domain to grammar semantic, and cogtison, Mosc ‘psi, Linguire ito the effec that spatial dns has on he prams ‘of Belhare on the quality of diferent ens in dai ther hagas «all resolvablpolyemy? or merecontetual viguenen and on the en ion finguistic desta othecopnitve modalities that at ase seta ‘renation and manifest in cultural patterns and sol behaigen 1 tudes the eossmodal questions rom angus point af ves weg forstruturl paral in non-lingusccoption, The lnguage and people Ham concerned with ae elled Belarc (Nep ‘ether Bethariyaor Belhae Rai. the term Rai Nep Ra) boas ce {cet ethnonym for a subgroup ofthe Kiant (Non. Kid pop Esstem Nepal ct Vikal & RST 251, Bike 1986) The languages spoon by some two thousind people: Virtually al speakers ste bilingual ase speaking Nepal dhe national Indo-Aryan ing franca. bt Bere sll {he preferred means of communication. The elhare people ae sleony agscaltraliss and fallow in many specs the geneel Kian patirs shamanit ancestor worship wit i high degre of soil compartments ‘zation into househols as political units (fv instance Sopa 9a, 1981; Dahal 1985; Gacnsle 1991; Hardma .) Alter discussing some terminological preliminaries (seton 1,1 fist introduce the most commonly used yet of spat dss in Belang ‘stem I cal rvronmental space ection 2) consis Prope Sta vtaton in lhare © ional series of morphemes that ate systematically plysemous among. several meanings or mapping operations Lagu insccion® tha the, ‘perations dir from one another bythe pincple according to abieh oondinate system is mapped ont the worl. In section 4. deus the stats ofthese operations i exis and grammar | suggest that te oper tions are semantic in nature and that thet ilerences are not mse omtextualization effets. Section $ focuses on the copie malrees (ovodel) that are required by the operations and that motte thee ‘tammaticalization and lxicalization. This provides the has for com, Paring the operations to phenomena in Conentional non-ingaste, ‘symbolism and its cognitive tepresentation (ston 6), Satin 7 seo rizsthe fining and offers some speculative conclusions on the tation ship between conceptual representation and the cognition underlying omentiona symbole practice 1 Some ations al dfitons Bore proeeing tothe analysis of Bethe, i willbe hello sketch the ‘erminolopcl framework within which {discuss dein? Fllowing lary 98D, Tal ur the obec that sted and gama the sbet aah fespect to which the figures located, In (0) then. te trough te hg an the well assumes the role othe ground, (etude he The relatoruphilin (1) spits the angle within which the igure can be ‘ound, This anges part of eomente system wih er pola othe ‘round. The specie layout of eoorinae stem in a pten Sesion to Wit the speciation of where “uphl actualy imposes a fame af eer ‘ence onthe situation, as psychologists hae called it et Rex 190s fo fee), The yout of oonnatess determin by an anc oly (1983) has it byw secondary reference objet’. In (this the fl oe hich gue and ground ae located a ph ‘Teaitional the frames of reference or coordinate hyouts are di Linguished ‘eit’ an intisic’ and an extrinsi (or “aol ane (sce Miler & Johnson-Land 1976 Levelt 1984, Hershovits 1986, Caron Radvansky & Irwin 1993, to mention just a few: ef Bickel 1994 and ‘Levinson 1996 fr review anes). This taxonomy conflts vals of ‘heunchor with thoweofthe er paint For instance, no distinction ade between an egocentric use of fet in (a), where gpa simultaneous sero point, ground, and anchor. snd an ‘epo-morph’ ase in (20) whee the System centred onthe round but ts spo layout is enrtles den mined by th speaker ‘Table 3.1. Envionmental Space Spl venation a Base ° aldauad ©) G) Memes ts som At Hallie (0) Mensou cle foam pt oer i Tratonal both wes are “kt defined as speaker 1d tlisadal é Anguish th novos he sulla ere veo merge, which are fHuhla inode and jus rom ross nut pepsin kl (90) fateal | IF the zero panto coordinate sys eg (or any Oh so) 3 : (2a) this egnenie (or gerty, psec) denis gece als ae

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