Contents -- Integrating the perspectives on language and space -- Section 1: Geography and variation across languages -- Disentangling geography from genealogy -- The vertical archipelago: Adding the third dimension to linguistic geography -- Language contact between geographic and mental space -- Commentary: The notion of space in linguistic typology -- Section 2: Geography and variation within languages -- Ideology and discourse in the enregisterment of regional variation -- Identity, ethnicity and place: The construction of youth language in London -- How powerful is geography as an explanatory factor in morphosyntactic variation? Areal features in the Anglophone world -- Area formation in morphosyntax -- How much does geography influence language variation? -- Commentary: Lost in space?. The many geographies and methodologies in research on variation within languages -- Section 3: Interactional spaces -- Interactional space and the study of embodied talk-in-interaction -- On the interactive achievement of space â€" and its possible meanings -- Plaza: Space or place? -- Xi to vi: “Over that way, look!”: (Meta)spatial representation in an emerging (Mayan?) sign language -- Commentary: What difference does space make for interaction and interaction for space? -- Section 4: Mobile spaces -- Action and space: Navigation as a social and spatial task -- Rearranging (in) space. On mobility and its relevance for the study of face-to-face interaction -- Commentary: Being mobile, talking on the move. Conceptual, analytical and methodological challenges of mobility -- Section 5: Mediated spaces -- Language, media, and digital landscapes.

Space in computer-mediated communication. Corpus-based investigations on the use of local deictics in chats -- Vernacular and multilingual writing in mediated spaces. Web-forums for post-colonial communities of practice -- Pointing within the abdomen: Local deixis under restricted conditions -- Commentary: Making space -- Section 6: Typology and spatial reasoning -- Exploiting space in German Sign Language. Linguistic and topographic reference in signed discourse -- Space in semantic typology: Object-centered geometries -- Gesture, space, grammar, and cognition -- Commentary: Is there a deictic of frame of reference? -- Index.