New directions in linguistics and semiotics / edited by James E. Copeland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copeland, James E.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 32.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate future.

Contents:

New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

PREFACE Linguistics at Rice University The First Two Decades

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE

INTRODUCTION On the Aims of Linguistics

REFERENCES CITED

INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE

CHAPTER 1. Mellow Glory See Language Steadily and See It Whole

APPENDIX

CHAPTER 2. The Uniqueness Fallacy

NOTES

INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO

CHAPTER 3. Linguistics in the University The Question of Social Accountability

CHAPTER 4. Lessons from American Indian Linguistics

INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE

CHAPTER 5. Reshaping Linguistics Context and Content

Context-responsive

Semantics

Interfaces with other disciplines

CHAPTER 6. The Many Linguistic Functions of Duration

CHAPTER 7. Lexical Semantics and Text Semantics

The data of semantics

Autonomy issues

Another analogy

Meaning and truth conditions

Ingredients of the needed model

Phenomena requiring explanation within the new model

The point

INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR

CHAPTER 8. Linguistics, Poetics, and the Literary Genres

CHAPTER 9. Subjects + Objects The Current State of Visual Semiotics

INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE

CHAPTER 10. Symptom

CHAPTER 11. Semiotic Laws in Linguistics and Natural Science

Language as an instrument of cognition and the law of semiotic relevance

Static and dynamic metalanguage

The semiotic basis for abstraction

Semiotic reality

The semiotic versus generativist notion of language

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-283-04735-7

9786613047359

90-272-8643-4

OCLC:

712015668