Construing experience through meaning : a language-based approach to cognition / M.A.K Halliday and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-2018, author.

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., author.

Series:

Open linguistics series.

Open linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Concepts.

Metaphor.

Computational linguistics.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that is complementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning; and hence as something that is construed in language. In other words, the concern is with the construal of human experience as a semantic system; and since language plays the central role not only in storing and exchanging experience but also in co

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction; Part II: The ideation base; Part III: The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems; Part IV: Theoretical and descriptive alternatives; Part V: Language and the construal of experience; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [619]-641) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-20536-X

9786613205360

1-4411-3173-6

OCLC:

741691555