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Date: 22-Mar-2012 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Linguistic Supertypes: Durst-Andersen E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Linguistic Supertypes
Subtitle: A Cognitive-Semiotic Theory of Human Communication
Series Title: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 6
Published: 2012
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Author: Per Durst-Andersen
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110253153 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110253139 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783110253146 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 34.95
Abstract:
Please note: This is a new edition of a previously announced text.
Now available as paperback!
The book offers a completely new view of language and of languages such as Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Georgian, Danish and English by dividing them into three supertypes on the basis of a step-by-step examination of their relationship to perception and cognition, their representation of situations and their use in oral and written discourse. The dynamic processing of visual stimuli involves three stages: input (experience), intake (understanding) and outcome (a combination). The very choice among three modalities of existence gives a language a certain voice -- either the voice of reality based on situations, the speaker's voice involving experiences or the hearer's voice grounded on information. This makes grammar a prime index: all symbols are static and impotent and need a vehicle, i.e. grammar, which can bring them to the proper point of reference. Language is shown to be a living organism with a determinant category, aspect, mood or tense, which conquers territory from other potential competitors trying to create harmony between verbal and nominal categories. It is demonstrated that the communication processes are different in the three supertypes, although in all three cases the speaker must choose between a public and a private voice before the grammar is put into use.
Linguistic Field(s):
Cognitive Science
History of Linguistics
Linguistic Theories
Semiotics
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