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Conceptual and Discourse Factors in Linguistic Structure (Paperback)
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Conceptual and Discourse Factors in Linguistic Structure (Paperback)
Series: Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language - Centre for the Study of Language and Information
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What can we learn about the human mind by studying language? The
predominant approaches in American linguistics use theoretical
assumptions about the formal nature of grammar to answer this
question. But these studies are restricted to unapplied models of
language, not how language functions in actual speech
situations--and as a result, their power to reveal the workings of
the human mind is limited.
This book overcomes those limitations by examining data on
naturally occurring language usage, not simplified theoretical
examples. The cognitive and functional arguments made here start
from psychologically realistic principles and arrive at
perspectives of linguistics that unveil mechanisms of the
mind--based on how language is actually used.
Moving within a cognitive and functional framework, this volume
focuses on the motivations for linguistic patterning in human
social and cognitive experience, and on the dynamic properties of
language construal, use, and development. Among the main research
avenues represented are first language acquisition, metaphor,
language processing and discourse, and conceptual structure and
grammar.
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