The Organization Of Meaning In Language

Author : Benjamin Althaus
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638390729

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The Organization of Meaning in Language by Benjamin Althaus Pdf

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: Hauptseminar, language: English, abstract: Language enables humans to convey and exchange information about the world they live in. A person’s interpretation of the real world is represented by the conceptual structure in the head. Concepts are “organized bundles of stored knowledge which represent an articulation of events, entities, situations, and so on” (Cruse 2004: 125). In order to interact with the world successfully one must have a concept of its structure and meaning, this concept can be represented by human language. This ability is species specific, i.e., only humans can manipulate the world symbolically. Furthermore symbolic behaviour is species uniform, which means that all humans have the ability for it. Children seem to acquire a language automatically according to a certain pattern. They learn a language on the basis of cultural context and without real instruction: linguistic ability appears to be a genetic predisposition of the human race. It is a fundamental aspect of our life as, our understanding of the world is “imposed on us by our language’s distinction” (Pinker 1994: 154). This essay will explain how meaning of language is organized and how it is reflected in the structure of language. I will first deal with the nature of the sign and then go on to explain how the meaning of complex signs is built up by word formation processes. The last part of the essay will investigate some of the processes which are involved when we categorize the world. [...]

Author : Susanne Tietze,Laurie Cohen,Gill Musson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412933650

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Understanding Organizations through Language by Susanne Tietze,Laurie Cohen,Gill Musson Pdf

`Makes fascinating reading and at the same time provides a good grounding in the study of the language of organizations, both for those who know little of the area and for those who are looking for a comprehensive overview of the field. Overall I would warmly recommend this book as an asset for students and teachers of organizational behaviour and for those with a general interest in the way in which language shapes our lives and work′ - Organization Studies `The book is extremely clear in its explanation of how language works.... The authors treat their readers as curious, intelligent and concerned to find new and powerful tools to come at the workings of organizations from a lateral and newly illuminating perspective′ - Virginia Valentine, Semiotic Solutions, London `The authors are able to apply their personal fascination with language to give students insights into organisational behaviour that significantly surpasses what is normally achieved by the tired old rituals of standard organizational behaviour texts and teaching′ - Tony Watson, Nottingham Trent University Taking issue with functional approaches to communication, Understanding Organizations through Language offers a viable alternative based on `webs of meaning′. Instead of viewing communication as a thing that can be unproblematically controlled and managed, the authors use semiology as a theoretical bedrock to develop a new metaphor for communication. Understanding Organizations through Language applies this approach to areas of interest, including: metaphor, story-telling, discourse, gender, leadership and electronic communication. Spanning the gap between highly theoretical organization studies texts and highly prescriptive communication texts, the book talks to the reader in a sophisticated yet approachable style. This style is complemented by a range of examples, activities and mini case studies. Also included are chapter summaries and further reading suggestions, making this a useful text for both academics and students. Advanced undergraduates and postgraduates will utilize this book for any course dealing with communication, particularly courses in HRM and organizational behaviour.

Author : Urs Egli,Peter E. Pause,Christoph Schwarze,Arnim von Stechow,Götz Wienold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276520

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Lexical Knowledge in the Organization of Language by Urs Egli,Peter E. Pause,Christoph Schwarze,Arnim von Stechow,Götz Wienold Pdf

This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1991. All contributions relate to the assumption that lexical knowledge plays a central role in the organization of language, inasmuch as the components or modules of grammar come together and interact in the lexicon. Originating in various traditions of linguistic thought, however, the individual papers reflect differing interests and are based upon different conceptions of the lexicon, its status and interfaces. There is the position of current generative linguistics, which aims at accounting for structural properties of the lexicon within syntactic theory. There is also the perspective of model-theoretical semantics, where borderline phenomena between lexical semantics and the semantics of sentence and text receive particular attention. Still another group of papers directly discusses problems of lexical semantics, focussing on representational and conceptual aspects of word meanings. The notion of a two-level semantics as well as cross-linguistic analyses are characteristic of these contributions. The book closes with a comparative and historical study of lexical evolution.

Author : David R. Heise
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030037390

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Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions by David R. Heise Pdf

Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English coalesce into groups that are recognizable as role sets in the contemporary social institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, education, medicine, sport, and arts. After establishing a theoretical and a methodological framework for his empirical work, David Heise presents the results obtained when meanings are assessed via dictionary definitions, collocates, and word associations. A close comparison of the results reveals that similar outcomes are obtained through each of these three different approaches of defining meaning. The final chapter summarizes the study, considers the benefits and limitations of studying society via language, and applies the results to describing how individuals operate social institutions via their daily social interactions. Aspects of this book will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists, and linguists.

Author : Robert Westwood,Stephen Linstead
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781446264393

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The Language of Organization by Robert Westwood,Stephen Linstead Pdf

The importance of communication for organizations has been an ongoing concern since management was first theorized. Yet language has tended to be viewed as simply a medium of communication - without language per se being theoretically problematized. This book enables a more critical exploration of the major theoretical positions on language and organization, explaining why language warrants a more central and considered place in organization studies. Language and Organization explains how various perspectives on the relationship between language and organization can be represented and explored. Concerned with issues such as power, knowledge and organizational discourse, this book will provide essential new links for a proper conceptualisation and understanding of organizations.

Author : Charles Kay Ogden,Ivor Armstrong Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : LCCN:58004998

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The Meaning of Meaning by Charles Kay Ogden,Ivor Armstrong Richards Pdf

Author : Francois Cooren,James R. Taylor,Elizabeth J. Van Every
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136683763

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Communication as Organizing by Francois Cooren,James R. Taylor,Elizabeth J. Van Every Pdf

Communication as Organizing unites multiple reflections on the role of language under a single rubric: the organizing role of communication. Stemming from Jim Taylor's earlier work, The Emergent Organization: Communication as Its Site and Surface (LEA, 2000), the volume editors present a communicational answer to the question, "what is an organization?" through contributions from an international set of scholars and researchers. The chapter authors synthesize various lines of research on constituting organizations through communication, describing their explorations of the relation between language, human practice, and the constitution of organizational forms. Each chapter develops a dimension of the central theme, showing how such concepts as agency, identity, sensemaking, narrative and account may be put to work in discursive analysis to develop effective research into organizing processes. The contributions employ concrete examples to show how the theoretical concepts can be employed to develop effective research. This distinctive volume encourages readers to discover and develop a truly communicational means of addressing the question of organization, addressing how organization itself emerges in the course of communicational transactions. In presenting a single and entirely communicational perspective for exploring organizational phenomena, grounded in the discourse of communicational transactions and the establishment of relationships through language, it is required reading for scholars, researchers, and graduate students working in organizational communication, management, social psychology, pragmatics of language, and organizational studies.

Author : Igor A. Uk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732803911

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Communicative Organization in Natural Language. The Semantic-communicative Structure of Sentences by Igor A. Uk Pdf

The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message.

Author : Igor Mel'čuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1618114565

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Language by Igor Mel'čuk Pdf

This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. Chapter 1 expounds the basic idea that underlies this approach--that a natural language must be described as a correspondence between linguistic meanings and linguistic texts--and explains the organization of the book. Chapter 2 introduces the notion of linguistic functional model, the three postulates of the Meaning-Text approach (a language is a particular meaning-text correspondence, a language must be described by a functional model and linguistic utterances must be treated at the level of the sentence and that of the word) and the perspective "from meaning to text" for linguistic descriptions. Chapter 3 contains a characterization of a particular Meaning-Text model: formal linguistic representations on the semantic, the syntactic and the morphological levels and the modules of a linguistic model that link these representations. Chapter 4 covers two central problems of the Meaning-Text approach: semantic decomposition and restricted lexical cooccurrence (≈ lexical functions); particular attention is paid to the correlation between semantic components in the definition of a lexical unit and the values of its lexical functions. Chapter 5 discusses five select issues: 1) the orientation of a linguistic description must be from meaning to text (using as data Spanish semivowels and Russian binominative constructions); 2) a system of notions and terms for linguistics (linguistic sign and the operation of linguistic union; notion of word; case, voice, and ergative construction); 3) formal description of meaning (strict semantic decomposition, standardization of semantemes, the adequacy of decomposition, the maximal block principle); 4) the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary (with a sample of complete lexical entries for Russian vocables); 5) dependencies in language, in particular--syntactic dependencies (the criteria for establishing a set of surface-syntactic relations for a language are formulated). Three appendices follow: a phonetic table, an inventory of surface-syntactic relations for English and an overview of all possible combinations of the three types of dependency (semantic, syntactic, and morphological). The book is supplied with a detailed index of notions and terms, which includes a linguistic glossary.

Author : Algirdas Julien Greimas,Joseph Courtés
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026097340

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Semiotics and Language by Algirdas Julien Greimas,Joseph Courtés Pdf

Author : Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031470141

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Advances in Quantitative Ethnography by Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens Pdf

Author : Igor? Aleksandrovi? Mel??uk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230609

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Communicative Organization in Natural Language by Igor? Aleksandrovi? Mel??uk Pdf

The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight logically independent oppositions: 1. Thematicity (Rheme vs. Theme), 2. Givenness (Given vs. Old), 3. Focalization (Focalized vs. Non-Focalized), 4. Perspective (Foregrounded vs. Backgrounded), 5. Emphasis (Emphasized vs. Non-Emphasized), 6. Presupposedness (Presupposed vs. Non-Presupposed), 7. Unitariness (Unitary vs. Articulated), 8. Locutionality (Communicated vs. Signaled). The values of these oppositions mark particular subnetworks of the starting SemS and thus allow for the distinction between sentences such as (a) A man killed a dog vs. The dog was killed by a man, (b) John washed the window vs. It was John who washed the window or (c) It hurts! vs. Ouch! The proposed Sem-Comm-oppositions are conceived as an attempt at sharpening the well-known notions of Topic ~ Comment, Focus, etc. Possible linguistic strategies for expressing the values of the Sem-Comm-oppositions in different languages are discussed at some length, with linguistic illustrations.

Author : S. Magala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230236691

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The Management of Meaning in Organizations by S. Magala Pdf

Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead.

Author : P.-M. Binder,K. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642360862

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The Language Phenomenon by P.-M. Binder,K. Smith Pdf

This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the relation between language and genes, the origins of language, self-organization, and language competition and death. The book as a whole will help to show how processes at different scales affect each other, thus presenting language as a dynamic, complex and profoundly human phenomenon.

Author : Mona Baker,Carol Maier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317620792

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Ethics and the Curriculum by Mona Baker,Carol Maier Pdf

First Published in 2011. This special issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer provides a forum for reflection on questions of ethics in the context of translator and interpreter education. Covering a wide range of training contexts and types of translation and interpreting, contributors call for a radically altered view of the relationship between ethics and the translating and interpreting profession, a relationship in which ethical decisions can rarely, if ever, be made a priori but must be understood and taught as an integral and challenging element of one’s work