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Author : Harjeet Singh Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Buddhist logic
ISBN : UOM:39015061102326
Contributed articles presented during the International Symposium on Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Sept. 2001.
Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108063784
A seminal 1921 work by the linguist Edward Sapir, outlining his influential ideas and hypotheses on language and its speakers.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509
Author : Nancy Bonvillain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : IND:30000087690453
Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages-this book explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. It examines the multi-faceted meanings and uses of language and emphasizes the ways that language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions. Includes new section on Narratives (Ch. 4) and Language Ideologies (Ch. 13). Features Interactional, situational, and social functions of languages. > For anyone interested in Language and Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, and Language and Communication.
Author : Cliff Goddard,Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668434
This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.
Author : F. Bostad,C. Brandist,L. Evensen,H. Faber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230005679
In this multi-disciplinary volume, comprising the work of several established scholars from different countries, central concepts associated with the work of the Bakhtin Circle are interrogated in relation to intellectual history, language theory and an understanding of new media. The book will prove an important resource for those interested in the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle, but also for those attempting to develop a coherent theoretical approach to language in use and problems of meaning production in new media.
Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198038979
It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Anna Wierzbicka, the distinguished linguist known for her theories of semantics, has written the first book that connects the English language with what she terms "Anglo" culture. Wierzbicka points out that language and culture are not just interconnected, but inseparable. She uses original research to investigate the "universe of meaning" within the English language (both grammar and vocabulary) and places it in historical and geographical perspective. This engrossing and fascinating work of scholarship should appeal not only to linguists and others concerned with language and culture, but the large group of scholars studying English and English as a second language.
Author : Vera da Silva Sinha,Ana Moreno-Núñez,Zhen Tian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261243
The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity. The volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers from the 7th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind with other specially commissioned chapters. Like the conference, this book aims to enhance mutual understanding among researchers from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, offering a wealth of insights to a wide range of readers on recent culturally oriented cognitive studies of language.
Author : Pascal Michelucci,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027243461
The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination of large theoretical issues, extensive corpus analysis in several modern languages such as Italian, Japanese Sign Language, and English, and applied close studies across a range of artistic media, this volume brings a fresh understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of iconicity. If primary and secondary modelling systems are rarely studied in tandem, it is clear from this volume that their fruitful juxtaposition yields striking insight into the cognitive concerns that pervade current semiotic research.
Author : Michael Silverstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009198820
Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945–2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures. Focusing not just on what people say but how we say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discourse far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity. Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples – from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau's pantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebears in linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefining how we think about language and culture.
Author : David Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780567047793
Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings. Words and language constitute meanings within discourses and discourses vary in power. The powerful ones reproduce more powerful meanings, colonize other discourses and marginalize or silence the least powerful languages and cultures. Language and culture death occur in extreme cases of marginalization. This book also demonstrates the socio-economic opportunities offered by language choice and the cultural allegiances of language, where groups have been able to create new lives for themselves by embracing new languages in new countries. Language can be a 'double-edged sword' of opportunity and marginalization. Language and Identity argues that bilingualism and in some cases multilingualism can both promote socio-economic opportunity and combat culture death and marginalization. With sound theoretical perspectives drawing upon the work of Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Gumperz, Foucault and others, this book provides readers with a rationale to redress social injustice in the world by supporting minority linguistic and cultural identities and an acknowledgement that access to language can provide opportunity.
Author : Dr. Glyn Williams
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847694500
Together with changes in the nature of modernity, globalisation is restructuring society. The sovereignty of the nation-state is undermined, the structuring of identity is realigned and a sense of individualism (which involves a freedom of choice re institutional alignments) prevails. English emerges as the global lingua franca. At the heart of these developments is the knowledge economy within which work is organised according to principles quite different from those of the Taylorism that prevailed in the industrial economy. Language and culture play a crucial role in the elaboration of the shared meaning that is crucial for learning within team working. The book argues that creativity is enhanced by the use of multilingualism within working practices. It concludes with an overview of how our understanding of language is also changing.
Author : Alfred Marleku
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783656258315
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, University of Prishtina, course: Constructivism and Semiotics, language: English, abstract: Human beings created a world of messages and meanings and continue to create new ones to look for the meaning of life. In order to communicate with each other and leave their stories for the new generation, humans have been using the power of images and symbols since the beginning of the human history. It is this greatest purpose – communication – that makes human beings to construct their system of signs and symbols – their language – to make the world meaningful. This essay is an attempt to deal, in general, with question of representation – the production of meaning through language. In first part of the essay we define, shortly, three theories of representation, with the main focus on the constructionist theory. In the second part we will show how the constructionist approach has to do with representation, the relationship between them. And, in third part we will explain the importance that these theories have in relation with communication. We will focus our attention on structuralist semiotics – in Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes works.
Author : Harjeet Singh Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015031712741
On theoretical reflections on linguistic and literary interpretations in different cultures; contributed research papers.
Author : Mario Pei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000517255
Originally published in 1964, this book examines where and how the pattern and texture of speech emerged and whether language is logical. It looks at linguistics from both the historical and descriptive points of view, as a physical science and as a social science. It also discusses the problem of aesthetics in language and what happens when different languages come into contact with each other. The book concludes with a discussion of the possibility of an international language, and indeed whether such a development would be progress or something that is needed or wanted.