Meaning, discourse and society / Wolfgang Teubert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teubert., author.

Contributor:

Wolfgang.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Psychology).

Discourse analysis.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Meaning, Discourse & Society

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction, thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon. Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds, enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Meaning, the Mind and the Brain

1. The cognitive turn

2. The long history of mind linguistics

3. What do we know about mental concepts?

4. Morphing theoretical se;mes into 'real' concepts

5. From mental representations to conceptual ontologies

6. What is meaning?

7. Where should we look for meaning?

Part II. Discourse and Society

8. Language as discourse

9. Society presupposes language, and language presupposes society

10. A closer look at oral societies

11. Differences between oral and literate societies

12. Empirical linguistics deals only with recorded language

13. Meaning, knowledge and the construction of reality

14. The language of the scientific experimental report

15. Diachronicity, intertextuality and hermeneutics

16. Meaning and the interpretation of a haiku; Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-84834-X

1-107-21149-2

1-282-65179-X

9786612651793

0-511-76947-4

0-511-77032-4

0-511-76724-2

0-511-76585-1

0-511-77085-5

0-511-76863-X

OCLC:

645098329