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Agency and impersonality : their linguistic and cultural manifestations /
In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and responsibility...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 78. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and responsibility, a philosophical interpretation of the concept of agency and a variety of epistemic attitudes towards agency that strongly influence our view of the world. Different cultures and languages process and express agency differently. To illustrate the co-relation between the linguistic expressions of ag. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027230889 9789027230881 9789027293282 9027293287 1282155407 9781282155404 9786612155406 661215540X |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |