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Total Speech - An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (Paperback, New)
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
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Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study
language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus
instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest
of human activity. In Total Speech, Toolan provides a clear and
comprehensive account of integrationalism, a major new theory of
language that declines to accept that text and context, language
and world, are distinct and stable categories. At the same time,
Toolan extends the integrationalist argument and calls for a
radical change in contemporary theorizing about language and
communication. In every foundational area of linguistics—from
literal meaning and metaphor to the nature of repetition to the
status of linguistic rules—Toolan advances fascinating and
provocative criticisms of received linguistic assumptions. Drawing
inspiration from the writings of language theorist Roy Harris,
Toolan brings the integrationalist perspective to bear on legal
cases, the reception of Salman Rushdie, poetry, and the language of
children. Toolan demonstrates that the embeddedness of language and
the situation-sensitive mutability of meaning reveal language as a
tool for re-fashioning and renewal. Total Speech breaks free of
standard linguistics’ fascinated attraction with “cognitive
blueprints” and quasi-algorithmic processing to characterize
language anew. Toolan’s reflections on the essence of language,
including his important discussion of intention, have strong
implications for students and scholars of discourse analysis,
literature, the law, anthropology, philosophy of language,
communication theory, and cognitive science, as well as
linguistics.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Post-Contemporary Interventions |
| Release date: |
June 1996 |
| Firstpublished: |
June 1996 |
| Authors: |
Michael Toolan
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
352 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-1790-6 |
| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-8223-1790-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780822317906 |
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