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Language in its cultural embedding : explorations in the relativity of signs and sign systems / by Harald Haarmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haarmann, Harald.
- Series:
- Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
- Studies in anthropological linguistics ; 4
- Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture--Semiotic models.
- Culture.
- Language and culture.
- Signs and symbols.
- Anthropological linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Reality, models of reality and sign systems: Interaction in a culture-related context
- Chapter 2 The microstructure of the linguistic sign and its relation to cultural settings: A componential analysis of the process of signification
- Chapter 3 Language as a sigmatic fixative of reality: Parameters of semiotic relativity
- Chapter 4 Language as a semiotic seismograph of acculturation: The problem of variability in sign systems
- Chapter 5 The world of signs and applied semiotics: An interpretative approach to ancient and modern cultures
- Bibliography
- Subject index
- Index of names
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and indexes.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110867541
- 3110867540
- OCLC:
- 922945306
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