Languages within language : an evolutive approach / Ivan Fonagy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fonagy, Ivan.

Series:

Foundations of semiotics, 0168-2555 ; v. 13

Foundations of Semiotics ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic change.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (841 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is little hope of reconstructing by means of comparative or typological studies a lingua adamica essentially different from present-day languages. The distant preverbal past is however still present in live speech. Phonetic, syntactic and semantic rule transgressions, far from being products of a deficient output, are governed by a universal iconic apparatus, a sort of 'anti-grammar' or 'proto-grammar' which enables the speaker and the poet to express preconscious and subconscious mental contents that could not be conveyed by means of the grammar of any language. Secondary

Contents:

LANGUAGES WITHIN LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Diversity of the lexicon; 1. Arbitrary vs. iconic signs; 2. Degrees of fuzziness; 3. Semantic and pragmatic meaning; 2. Dual encoding; Vocal style; 1. Oral gesturing; 2. Vocal style; 3. Motivation and convention; 4. Semantic aspects of statistical deviation; 5. Unconscious vocal messages; 6. Vocal personality; 3. Syntactic gesturing; 1. Expressive word order; 2. Impressive word order; 3. Syntactic portrayal; 4. Fancy and motivation

4. Syntactic regressions1. Genesis of articulated sentences; 2. Ontogeny and psychogenesis; 3. Primal verbal categories; 4. Functional variety of syntactic regressions; 5. Vocal expression of emotions; 1. Static and dynamic distinctive features; 2. How is vocal gesturing to be interpreted?; 3. Intonation and music; 4. Emotions, attitudes, and moods; 5. Melodic metaphors: Dynamics and evolution; 6. Complex melodic patterns; 6. Poetry and vocal art; 1. Melody of poetic texts; 2. Interpretation of creative vocal messages; 7. Situation and meaning; 1. The status of bound utterances

2. Semantic erosion3. Pragmatic abstraction; 4. bound utterances: The praxis; 5. Utterances in the making; 6. The cliché: A contribution to multi-channel communication; 8. Fading and dynamics; 1. Transfer of bound utterances; 2. Bound utterances as a source of lexical change; 3. Bound utterances inducing grammatical changes; 4. Modal particles: Change of semiotic levels; 5. Fixation, change, and dynamic synchrony; 9. A hidden presence: Verbal magic; 1. Euphemism, cacophemism; 2. Speech acts and verbal magic; 10. Playing with language: Joke and metaphor

1. Syntactic and semantic structure of jokes2. Poetry is also joking; 3. Metaphor and its relatives: A parenthesis; 4. Joke-land and Metaphoria: A tentative synthesis; 11. The metaphor: A research instrument; 1. Metaphors in phonetics; 2. Preconscious bases of metaphors; 3. Unconscious foundations; 4. Why metaphors?; 5. Poetic origins of scientific metaphor; 6. On cognitive metaphor; 12. Why poetic language?; 1. Types of poetic redundancy; 2. Striving for more information; 3. Synthesis of conflicting trends; 4. The forms of content; 5. The content of inner form

6. Functions of poetic language7. A missing dimension; 13. The semantic structure of possessive constructions; 1. Semantic diversity; 2. Interlinguistic divergences; 3. Interlinguistic convergences; 4. How to reduce diversity; 5. Paleological unity in diversity; 6. Functions of polyvalence; 7. An ontogenetic outlook; 14. Semantic structure of punctuation marks; 1. Status of punctuation marks; 2. Iconicity and language dependence of punctuation marks; 15. Why gestures?; 1. Types and functions of gesture; 2. Visual thinking; 3. Action language; 4. Gestures and their vicissitudes

16. Between acts and words

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-784) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613327666

9781283327664

128332766X

9789027275059

902727505X

OCLC:

769341975