Abstract
Editorial: Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Language Sciences, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Demonstratives are closely related to gestural communication, notably to pointing (Stukenbrock, 2015), and are among the first and most frequent words in early child language (Clark, 1978)
This Research Topic includes 14 articles that provide an overview of current research on demonstratives and cast a fresh light on some of the above-mentioned topics
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Language Sciences, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Demonstratives play an important role in the encoding of reference in space (Coventry et al, 2008) and the organization of linguistic elements in discourse (Himmelmann, 1997). These features characterize demonstratives as a very special class of linguistic items that are foundational to communication, spatial orientation, discourse processing, language acquisition, and the emergence of grammar.
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