Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin An Interdisciplinary Analysis /

• Main Author: Pozzato, Maria Pia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 16
• Subjects: Pragmatics.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Cognitive psychology.; Semiotics.; Philosophy of Language.; Cognitive Psychology.

This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin. It examines the drawings of interviewees who were asked to draw their own place of origin on a white A3 sheet, using pencil or colour, according to their choice. If they were born i...