What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative
linguists have severely limited the influence of meaning, claiming
that language is not affected by other cognitive processes and that
semantics does not influence linguistic form. Conversely,
cognitivist and functionalist linguists believe that meaning
pervades and motivates all levels of linguistic structure. This
dispute can be resolved conclusively by evidence from signed
languages. Signed languages are full of iconic linguistic items:
words, inflections, and even syntactic constructions with
structural similarities between their physical form and their
referents' form. Iconic items can have concrete meanings and also
abstract meanings through conceptual metaphors. Language from the
Body rebuts the generativist linguistic theories which separate
form and meaning and asserts that iconicity can only be described
in a cognitivist framework where meaning can influence form.
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