LINGUIST List 21.2774

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Books: Applied Ling/Cognitive Science/Linguistic Theories: Gasparov

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        1.    Julia Ulrich, Speech, Memory, and Meaning: Gasparov
Message 1: Speech, Memory, and Meaning: Gasparov
Date: 29-Jun-2010
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Speech, Memory, and Meaning: Gasparov
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Title: Speech, Memory, and Meaning Subtitle: Intertextuality in Everyday Language Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 214 Published: 2010 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110219104-1

Author: Boris Gasparov Electronic: ISBN: 9783110219111 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110219104 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Abstract:

The book pursues a usage-oriented strategy of language description byinfusing it with the central concept of post-structural semiotics and literarytheory - that of intertextual memory. Its principal claim is that all new facts oflanguage are grounded in the speakers' memory of previous experiences ofusing language. It is a "speech to speech" model: every new fact of speechis seen as emerging out of recalled fragments that are reiterated andmanipulated at the same time. By the same token, the new meaning isalways superscribed on something familiar and recognizable as its (more orless radical) alteration. The model offers a way to describe the meaning oflanguage as an open-ended process, the way the meaning of literary works isdescribed in modern literary criticism.

The basic unit of the intertextual model is the Communicative Fragment (CF).A CF is a fraction of speech of any shape, meaning, and stylisticprovenance, which speakers recognize and, as a consequence, treat as awhole. Its chief attributes are a prefabricated shape, an integral meaning (i.e.,perceived as a whole whose scope always goes beyond the analyzable), anda specific communicative "texture" alluding at a speech genre, a tangiblespeech situation, and profiles of the speaker and the implied addressee.Although a CF has a recognizable shape, it is not as definitively set as thatof stationary linguistic signs (words and morphemes). A CF can be temperedwith, truncated or expanded, adapted to and fused with other CFs.

The book describes in detail typical devices by which speakers manipulatetheir resources of linguistic memory, whose ever-new constellations inspeech create infinite possibilities for new variations and shades of meaning.

The book is of interest to linguists in such diverse fields as cognitivelinguistics, discourse analysis, functional linguistics, language pedagogy,translation studies, semiotics, and the philosophy of language.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science                             Discourse Analysis                             Linguistic Theories                             Applied Linguistics                             Communications
Written In: English (eng )

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