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Language from the body : iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language /
What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited the influence of meaning, claiming that language is not affected by other cognitive processes and that semantics does not influence linguistic form. Conversely, cognitivist and functionalist linguists believ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited the influence of meaning, claiming that language is not affected by other cognitive processes and that semantics does not influence linguistic form. Conversely, cognitivist and functionalist linguists believe that meaning pervades and motivates all levels of linguistic structure. This dispute can now be resolved conclusively by evidence from signed languages. Signed languages are full of iconic linguistic items: words, inflections, and even syntactic constructions with structural similarities between their physical form and their referents' form. Iconic items can have concrete meanings and also abstract meanings through conceptual metaphors. Language from the Body rebuts the generativist linguistic theories which separate form and meaning and asserts that iconicity can only be described in a cognitivist framework where meaning can influence form. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511509629 0511509626 0511040768 9780511040764 0521770629 9780521770620 0511173636 9780511173639 1280421169 9781280421167 0511049374 9780511049378 9786610421169 6610421161 1107119065 9781107119062 0521158605 9780521158602 0511152779 9780511152771 0511303270 9780511303272 |