Cognition and representation in linguistic theory / Antoine Culioli ; texts selected, edited, and introduced by Michel Liddle ; translated with the assistance of John T. Stonham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culioli, Antoine.

Contributor:

Liddle, Michel.

Stonham, John T.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 112.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 112

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Knowledge representation (Information theory).

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 163 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is grounded in Emile Benveniste's (1902-1976) revolutionary answer to Saussure's opposition between competence (langue) and performance (parole) captured in the idea of énonciation, in which the relationship between an individual and a language is one of appropriation. The translation has been prepared to

Contents:

COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION IN LINGUISTIC THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; FOREWORD & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; Enunciation; Culioli 's Enunciative Model in Brief; The 1983-1984 DEA (Doctoral) Seminar in Perspective; An English-speaking Presence; Methodology of the Translation; CHAPTER 1. DEFINING THE TERRITORY; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE 1983-1984 D.E.A. SEMINAR; 1. Language and Languages; 2. Observations and Theorization; 3. Representation; 4. Validation.; ON DEFINING THE TERRITORY FOLLOWING THE D.E.A. SEMINAR

CHAPTER 2. REPRESENTING NOTIONS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE 1983-1984 D.E.A. SEMINAR; [Three Types of Notions]; [Notions and Words]; [The Prototype]; ON NOTIONS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION FOLLOWING THE D.EA. SEMINAR; CHAPTER 3. NOTIONAL DOMAINS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; Notions and Occurrences; The Class of Occurrences and Individuation; The Organizing Centre; Identifying and Differentiating; [The gradient]; [Interior, Exterior, Boundary]; A Note on the Centre; Open / Closed, and Intension /Extension; The High Degree; Constructing the Notional Domain

The Boundary Revisited Intension and Extension; The Problem of the Boundary; Negation; [Positive, Negative and the Domain]; Pouvoir and Constructing the Notional Domain; [Trans-categorical Analyses and the Turn-back Point]; A Second Look at the Attracting Centre; ON NOTIONAL DOMAINS FOLLOWING THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; CHAPTER 4. UTTERING, ASSERTING AND INTERROGATIVES; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; Preassertive Constructs; From Lexis to Assertion; Uttering; Linearizing; The interrogative; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; [Enunciator / Co-enunciator vs. Locutor / Interlocutor]

The Interrogative and the Notional Domain A Note on ""heuristic approach""; [The Interrogative and the Notional Domain (2); Biased Questions; The Three Configurations; [Asserting]; Negative interrogative: Did he not come?; [The Negative interrogative and Configuration 2]; [The Negative interrogative and Configuration 3]; [From Equiponderance to Tags]; ON CONSTRUCTING ASSERTIONS FOLLOWING THE D.EA.SEMINAR; CHAPTER 5. MODALIZING; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; Modality 1; Modality 4; [Linguistics and the Problem of Reference]; Modality 2; Modality 3

Modality as a detached representation of reality Fictitious locating and examples of the same; The Intersubjective Relationship (Modality 4); Being able to [pouvoir]: another look at the problem - a modal viewpoint; [Linking the Detached Locator to the Plane of Assertion]; [Between Modality and Aspect]; ON MODALIZING FOLLOWING THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; CHAPTER 6. ASPECTS AND QUANTIFIABILIZATION; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; Quantification Linked to the Type of Scanning; ON ASPECTS AND QUANTIFIABILIZATION FOLLOWING THE D.EA. SEMINAR

CHAPTER 7. ASPECT, DIATHESIS AND QUANTIFIABILIZATION

Notes:

Translation of a transcript of the author's D.E.A. seminar in linguistics given 1983-1984.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-160) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31276-X

9786613312761

90-272-7653-6

OCLC:

759101337