Language and Meaning - Cognitive and Functional Perspectives (Paperback)

The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the relation between language and meaning. It proposes various theoretical approaches to the issue ranging from a synergetic theory of meaning merging the cognitive and the socio-historical perspectives, through holistic, evolutionary models and a revision of some of the assumptions of Cognitive Metaphor Theory to the discussion of the role of pragmatic competence in meaning construction. A number of papers make recourse to corpus based studies and psycholinguistic experiments. The topics of specific linguistic investigations cover such diverse issues as idiom processing, emotion words in Chinese, valuation of abstract nouns, the preposition at and scalar adjectives. Several papers explore the application of the reflections on the nature of meaning to lexicography and translation. One, self-reflective article investigates the consequences of the unformulated assumptions about meaning for the coherence of proposed linguistic theories. The volume firmly places the study of meaning in the centre of the linguistic research by showing its significance for linguistic theory and its applications.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Polish Studies in English Language & Literature, 19
Release date:	2007
Editors:	Malgorzata Fabiszak
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	342
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-56158-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
LSN:	3-631-56158-X
Barcode:	9783631561584

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