Broschiertes Buch

Language and Meaning

Cognitive and Functional Perspectives

Herausgegeben: Fabiszak, Malgorzata

Beschreibung

The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the relation between language and meaning. It proposes various theoretical approaches to the issue ranging from a synergetic theory of meaning merging the cognitive and the socio-historical perspectives, through holistic, evolutionary models and a revision of some of the assumptions of Cognitive Metaphor Theory to the discussion of the role of pragmatic competence in meaning construction. A number of papers make recourse to corpus based studies and psycholinguistic experiments. The topics of specific linguistic investigations cover such diverse issues as idiom processing, emotion words in Chinese, valuation of abstract nouns, the preposition at and scalar adjectives. Several papers explore the application of the reflections on the nature of meaning to lexicography and translation. One, self-reflective article investigates the consequences of the unformulated assumptions about meaning for the coherence of proposed linguistic theories. The volume firmly places the study of meaning in the centre of the linguistic research by showing its significance for linguistic theory and its applications.

Autor

The Editor: Mägorzata Fabiszak is an Assistant Professor at the School of English Adam Mickiewicz University Poznä (Poland). She has published papers on medieval English emotions, language of mass media, and the use of corpora for cognitive metaphor research. She is also the author of a book on the concept of `joy¿ in Old and Middle English.

Produktdetails

• Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature 19
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 56158
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9783631561584
• ISBN-10: 363156158X
• Artikelnr.: 26653656

Rezensionen

"The book is nevertheless yet another proof of the strength of linguistic work in Poland, and certainly worth a browse for any linguist interested in the current state of research into language and meaning." (Heli Tissari, SKY Journal of Linguistics)