Meaning, Discourse and Society

ISBN-13: 9780521885652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 300 str.

Wolfgang Teubert

Opis

Investigates the construction of reality within discourse, considering how meaning is negotiated and knowledge created.

Recenzje

'The book is well-organized, inspiring and clear. It will be of great interest to those who view language as social interaction and are therefore concerned with the social contexts in which discourse is embedded.' Jing Chen, Discourse Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Meaning, the Mind and the Brain: 1. The cognitive turn; 2. The long history of mind linguistics; 3. What do we know about mental concepts?; 4. Morphing theoretical sémes into 'real' concepts; 5. From mental representations to conceptual ontologies; 6. What is meaning?; 7. Where should we look for meaning?; Part II. Discourse and Society: 8. Language as discourse; 9. Society presupposes language, and language presupposes society; 10. A closer look at oral societies; 11. Differences between oral and literate societies; 12. Empirical linguistics deals only with recorded language; 13. Meaning, knowledge and the construction of reality; 14. The language of the scientific experimental report; 15. Diachronicity, intertextuality and hermeneutics; 16. Meaning and the interpretation of a haiku; Conclusion.