%0 Journal Article %A Terrill, Angela %A Burenhult, Niclas %T Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference %D 2008 %J Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language” %V 32 %N 1 %P 93-136 %@ 0378-4177 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.32.1.05ter %I John Benjamins %X This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Is­lands), and supporting data from five more languages, to show that the orienta­tion strategy is a major organizing principle in these languages. This strategy has not previously been recognized in the literature as a unitary phenomenon, and the languages which employ it present particular challenges to existing ty­pol­ogies of spatial frames of reference. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.32.1.05ter