Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition (Open Linguistics Series) - Softcover

Halliday, M.A.K. And Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

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9780304704903: Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition (Open Linguistics Series)
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ISBN 10: 0304704903 ISBN 13: 9780304704903
Publisher: Cassell, 1999

Synopsis

This text explores how human beings construe experience. This means experience as a resource, as a potential for understanding, representing and acting on reality. It is in terms of this potential that the particulars of daily life are they make sense because they are instantiations of this potential.

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About the Author

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 M. A. K. Halliday, Emeritus Professor ofLinguistics at the University of Sydney, Australis.

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is Chair Professor and Head in the Department of English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

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Publisher
Cassell
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0304704903
ISBN 13 
9780304704903
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
657
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