Linguistic Supertypes : A Cognitive-Semiotic Theory of Human Communication / Per Durst-Andersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durst-Andersen, Per, author.

Series:

Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Signs and symbols.

Communication.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book offers a completely new view of language and of languages such as Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Georgian, Danish and English by dividing them into three supertypes on the basis of a step-by-step examination of their relationship to perception and cognition, their representation of situations and their use in oral and written discourse. The dynamic processing of visual stimuli involves three stages: input (experience), intake (understanding) and outcome (a combination). The very choice among three modalities of existence gives a language a certain voice -- either the voice of reality based on situations, the speaker's voice involving experiences or the hearer's voice grounded on information. This makes grammar a prime index: all symbols are static and impotent and need a vehicle, i.e. grammar, which can bring them to the proper point of reference. Language is shown to be a living organism with a determinant category, aspect, mood or tense, which conquers territory from other potential competitors trying to create harmony between verbal and nominal categories. It is demonstrated that the communication processes are different in the three supertypes, although in all three cases the speaker must choose between a public and a private voice before the grammar is put into use.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Part I: Language and beyond

Chapter 1. Language and situations

Chapter 2. Language and perception

Chapter 3. Language and cognition

Part II: Grammar and communication

Chapter 4. Grammar and pragmatics

Chapter 5. Grammar and semiotics

Part III: Language inside out

Chapter 6. From types to supertypes

Chapter 7. The basic voice of language

Chapter 8. Linguistic expansion

Chapter 9. The principal and secondary voice of language

Focusing summary

References

Definition list

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613166593

9781283166591

1283166593

9783110253153

3110253151

OCLC:

723945593