CAC 12

Perceptions of space

Proxemics. The culture and conceptions of position and direction. Language and space.

Tasks

• Read the reading, Brown and Levinson 1993
• look through the slides, some of them won’t make sense until we do the session

Slides

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NB - There are also some slides (after the one titled ’Measuring LR recognition) which won’t make a lot of sense without the actual experiment (see video)

Reading

Brown, P. and Levinson, S. C. (1993) ‘Uphill’ and ‘downhill’ in Tzeltal. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 3(1):46–74

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Other material

The Tenejapa region: (“Uphill/downhill” directionality) in Google Earth online - may take a few moments to load ↗️