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Language and Meaning: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives

by Jacek Fisiak , Malgorzata Fabiszak
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783631561584
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
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  • Pages: 346
  • Original Price: GBP 77.65
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 418 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Semantics

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.

The Editor: Malgorzata Fabiszak is an Assistant Professor at the School of English Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (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.

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