LINGUIST List 17.1667

Fri Jun 02 2006

Books: Semantics: Halliday, Matthiessen

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Directory         1.    Adam Green, Construing Experience Through Meaning: Halliday, Matthiessen

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Message 1: Construing Experience Through Meaning: Halliday, Matthiessen
Date: 01-Jun-2006
From: Adam Green <agreencontinuumbooks.com>
Subject: Construing Experience Through Meaning: Halliday, Matthiessen


Title: Construing Experience Through Meaning Subtitle: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition Published: 2006 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
                http://www.continuumbooks.com

Author: M.A.K Halliday, University of Sydney Author: Christian Matthiessen, Macquarie University, Sydney. Paperback: ISBN: 0826488927 Pages: 672 Price: U.K. £ 25.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0826488927 Pages: 672 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Abstract:

The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience ofthe world. The construction of experience is usually thought of asknowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata,scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that iscomplementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning;and hence as something that is construed in language. In other words, theconcern is with the construal of human experience as a semantic system; andsince language plays the central role not only in storing and exchangingexperience but also in construing it, language is taken as theinterpretative base.

The focus of the book is both theoretical and descriptive. The authorsconsider it important that theory and description should develop inparallel, with constant interchange between the two. The major descriptivecomponent is an account of the most general features of the ideationalsemantics of English, which is then exemplified in two familiar text types(recipes and weather forecasts). There is also a brief reference to thesemantics of Chinese. Theoretical issues are raised throughout as theybecome relevant to the discussion, with the theoretical base being drawnfrom systemic functional linguistics. Both the theoretical and descriptiveproposals offered in the book are compared and contrasted with approachesderiving from AI, cognitive science and cognitive linguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Written In: English (eng )

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