Meaning in Mind and Society

ISBN-13: 9783110205107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 527 str.

Peter Harder

Opis

Cognitive Linguistics is becoming increasingly oriented towards the social dimension. This book describes this development and discusses some central issues for the emerging socio-cognitive synthesis. Mapping out the territory from individual embodied meaning to discourse struggles, it suggests principles for an analysis of the relation between conceptual and social processes.

Recenzje

"Overall, the book is a main contribution to CL studies and research on
socio-cultural and socio-political niches. The technical style and highly
scientific argumentation make this book especially apt for linguists and
scholars interested not only in cognitive studies but also in philosophical and
sociolinguistic studies. In sum, Harder's work represents a way of furthering
the limits of linguistics, semantics, and also "Begriffsgeschichte", or
conceptual history (cf. Koselleck 2002), through its social turn and new
functional features of conceptual levels of both mind and meaning."
Avi Weizmann in Linguist List 23.2341

O autorze

Peter Harder, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.