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The paper reports on an exploratory study where we examine alpine route directions from the perspective of new and given information. The first results reveal traces of a “mountain scenario”—we encounter geographic entities that are introduced into the discourse as assumingly familiar to the reader, signalling a certain structure associated with alpine space.
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Egorova, E. (2018). New and Given Information in Alpine Route Directions. In: Fogliaroni, P., Ballatore, A., Clementini, E. (eds) Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). COSIT 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_11
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