CONCEPTUAL AND DISCOURSE FACTORS IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE

CIENKI, A. / B. J. LUKA / M. SMITH, EDS.

ISBN 10: 1575862581 / ISBN 13: 9781575862583

Published by C.S.L.I.(CENTER STUDY LANGUAGE INFORM.), STANFORD, CA, 2001

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CIENKI, A. / B. J. LUKA / M. SMITH, EDS.: CONCEPTUAL AND DISCOURSE FACTORS IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE. STANFORD, CA, 2001, xiv 276 p. , 405 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (LB-2-4) 405 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CONCEPTUAL AND DISCOURSE FACTORS IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE
• Publisher: C.S.L.I.(CENTER STUDY LANGUAGE INFORM.), STANFORD, CA
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575862581
• ISBN 13: 9781575862583
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Condition: New
• Weight: 405 grams
• Book Type: Libro
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistica

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Synopsis

What can we learn about the human mind by studying language? The predominant approaches in American linguistics use theoretical assumptions about the formal nature of grammar to answer this question. But these studies are restricted to unapplied models of language, not how language functions in actual speech situations—and as a result, their power to reveal the workings of the human mind is limited.

This book overcomes those limitations by examining data on naturally occurring language usage, not simplified theoretical examples. The cognitive and functional arguments made here start from psychologically realistic principles and arrive at perspectives of linguistics that unveil mechanisms of the mind—based on how language is actually used.

Moving within a cognitive and functional framework, this volume focuses on the motivations for linguistic patterning in human social and cognitive experience, and on the dynamic properties of language construal, use, and development. Among the main research avenues represented are first language acquisition, metaphor, language processing and discourse, and conceptual structure and grammar.

About the Author

Michael B. Smith is emeritus professor of French and philosophy at Berry College. Among other works, he has translated books by Michel de Certeau, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Emmanuel Levinas. In addition, he is the author of Toward the Outside: Themes and Concepts in Emmanuel Levinas.