Meaning, Discourse and Society - Hardcover

Teubert, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521885655 ISBN 13: 9780521885652

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction, thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon. Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds, enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.

About this title

Book Description:

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences.

About the Author:

Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. His previous book publications include Corpus Linguistics: A Short Introduction (2007, with Anna Cermakova), Text, Discourse and Corpura (2007, with Michael Hoey, Michael Stubbs and Michaela Mahlberg) and he was co-editor of Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics: A Reader (2007) and Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521885655
• ISBN 13: 9780521885652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300