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

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

ISBN 10: 0304704903 / ISBN 13: 9780304704903

Published by Cassell, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition (Open Linguistics Series)
• Publisher: Cassell
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304704903
• ISBN 13: 9780304704903
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: book

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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.

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.