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How Language Makes Meaning - Couverture souple

Colston, Herbert L.

 
9781009246026: How Language Makes Meaning
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 100924602X ISBN 13 : 9781009246026
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic and other meaning contributors to formulate a new model of how language functions following a pattern of conjoined antonymy. It investigates how embodied simulations,semantic information, deviation, omission, indirectness, figurativity, language play, and other processes leverage rich meaning from only a few words by using inherently biological, cognitive and social frameworks. The interaction of these meaning-making components of language is described and a language-functioning model based on recent neuroscientific research is laid out to allow for a more complete understanding of how language operates.

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À propos de l'auteur

Herbert L. Colston is Professor and Chair for the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
100924602X
ISBN 13 
9781009246026
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
302
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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