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Reinventing structuralism : what sign relations reveal about consciousness / Rodney B. Sangster.
LIBRA PN98.S46 S26 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sangster, Rodney B., 1942-
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; v. 264.
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; v. 264
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics and literature.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction : the promise of modern-day structuralism
- Seeking the correlates of meaning in language
- Sign relations as organic properties of mind
- Language as a self-organizing system
- Applying the sign principle to grammatical meaning
- Past/non-past : the cancellation feature
- Future/non-future : the objectiveness feature
- Perfective/imperfective : The dimensionality feature
- Plural/non-plural : the plurality feature
- Relations creating separation : the distinctness feature
- Relations defined on the present as a conceptual property : the extension feature
- Case relations as a product of grammatical selection
- The Russian accusative and instrumental
- The Russian genitive and genitive/accusative
- The Russian dative and subjectless sentences
- The system of Russian cases
- Extending the sign principle to syntax
- The modification relation in English : the extension feature
- The modification relation in Russian : the dimensionality feature
- The modification relation in French : the plurality feature
- The potential of sign theory in the domain of lexical meaning
- Preliminary concepts
- Verbal lexical systems
- Nominal lexical systems
- The feature hierarchy that defines human conceptual space
- The evidence from transpersonal psychology
- The evidence from the study of myth
- Neurological evidence for the evolution of higher-order consciousness
- The neurological structure of consciousness
- The evolution of the language faculty
- The sign relation and the origin of image-making
- The position of structuralism in the modern era
- Saussure's langue and parole
- Derrida's différance
- Lévi-strauss' contentless structure
- Lacan's symbolic order
- Bybee's usage-based grammar
- Jakobson's relative autonomy
- Epilogue : the wisdom of the primal mind
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110303735
- 3110303736
- 9783110304978
- 311030497X
- OCLC:
- 846556625
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