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The Language Dynamic
Tom Bartlett, Garard O'Grady
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R853
Discovery Miles 8 530
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Language is both a socially distributed system, unknowable to any
one individual, and an individually embodied biological system. As
such it is subject to recursive biological and societal pressures
which enable it to function and change. The Language Dynamic
identifies a number of mechanisms that enable the meaning potential
of language from the phoneme through grammar and discourse and onto
ideological systems. These core mechanisms are: (i) articulation
and stratality, by which meaningful units combine in context to
form higher-order meanings which are greater than the sum of their
parts; (ii) redundancy, as the mutually re-enforcing yet unstable
relation between strata which allows for creativity and change;
(iii) prospection, as the means by which speakers effectively and
automatically recycle the syntagmatic patterns that emerge from
language as a contextualised system. In providing an integrated
account of the interconnections between these core mechanisms, the
book allow us to conceptualise the dynamics of language change and
growth as at once a motivated and agentless process. The book,
which underpins functional theories of language with concepts from
biological and cultural evolution, social semiotics and systems
theory, will be relevant to all who are interested in how and why
we can mean and what it means for us as humans to be semiotic
agents.
The notion of Choice provides a constant underlying theme to work
in Systemic Functional Linguistics, whether this is concerned with
in-depth description of the system of lexicogrammatical options
available within specific languages or with the analysis of the
semiotic and/or social implications of the choices taken within
specific texts. Yet to date little has been published exploring the
applicability of choice across various contexts. This book
addresses this gap in the literature by presenting a selection of
writings from internationally renowned authors that develop the
analytical perspective of choice across wide-ranging contexts and
in some cases in languages other than English. The book
demonstrates the value of Systemic Functional Linguistics as an
"applicable" linguistics, which is a core tool in broader fields
such as pedagogy, literary studies and critical discourse analysis.
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The Language Dynamic
Tom Bartlett, Garard O'Grady
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R2,057
Discovery Miles 20 570
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Language is both a socially distributed system, unknowable to any
one individual, and an individually embodied biological system. As
such it is subject to recursive biological and societal pressures
which enable it to function and change. The Language Dynamic
identifies a number of mechanisms that enable the meaning potential
of language from the phoneme through grammar and discourse and onto
ideological systems. These core mechanisms are: (i) articulation
and stratality, by which meaningful units combine in context to
form higher-order meanings which are greater than the sum of their
parts; (ii) redundancy, as the mutually re-enforcing yet unstable
relation between strata which allows for creativity and change;
(iii) prospection, as the means by which speakers effectively and
automatically recycle the syntagmatic patterns that emerge from
language as a contextualised system. In providing an integrated
account of the interconnections between these core mechanisms, the
book allow us to conceptualise the dynamics of language change and
growth as at once a motivated and agentless process. The book,
which underpins functional theories of language with concepts from
biological and cultural evolution, social semiotics and systems
theory, will be relevant to all who are interested in how and why
we can mean and what it means for us as humans to be semiotic
agents.
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