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Speech, Memory, and Meaning - Intertextuality in Everyday Language (Hardcover)
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Speech, Memory, and Meaning - Intertextuality in Everyday Language (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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The book pursues a usage-oriented strategy of language description
by infusing it with the central concept of post-structural
semiotics and literary theory - that of intertextual memory. Its
principal claim is that all new facts of language are grounded in
the speakers' memory of previous experiences of using language. It
is a "speech to speech" model: every new fact of speech is seen as
emerging out of recalled fragments that are reiterated and
manipulated at the same time. By the same token, the new meaning is
always superscribed on something familiar and recognizable as its
(more or less radical) alteration. The model offers a way to
describe the meaning of language as an open-ended process, the way
the meaning of literary works is described in modern literary
criticism. The basic unit of the intertextual model is the
Communicative Fragment (CF). A CF is a fraction of speech of any
shape, meaning, and stylistic provenance, which speakers recognize
and, as a consequence, treat as a whole. Its chief attributes are a
prefabricated shape, an integral meaning (i.e., perceived as a
whole whose scope always goes beyond the analyzable), and a
specific communicative "texture" alluding at a speech genre, a
tangible speech situation, and profiles of the speaker and the
implied addressee. Although a CF has a recognizable shape, it is
not as definitively set as that of stationary linguistic signs
(words and morphemes). A CF can be tempered with, truncated or
expanded, adapted to and fused with other CFs. The book describes
in detail typical devices by which speakers manipulate their
resources of linguistic memory, whose ever-new constellations in
speech create infinite possibilities for new variations and shades
of meaning. The book is of interest to linguists in such diverse
fields as Cognitive Linguistics, discourse analysis, functional
linguistics, language pedagogy, translation studies, semiotics, and
the philosophy of language.
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