Wolfgang Teubert

Meaning, Discourse and Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the construction of reality within discourse, considering how meaning is negotiated and knowledge created.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780521885652
• ISBN-10: 0521885655
• Artikelnr.: 28517931

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. His previous book publications include Corpus Linguistics: A Short Introduction (2007, with Anna Cermakova), Text, Discourse and Corpura (2007, with Michael Hoey, Michael Stubbs and Michaela Mahlberg) and he was co-editor of Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics: A Reader (2007) and Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Meaning, the Mind and the Brain: 1. The cognitive turn
2. The long history of mind linguistics
3. What do we know about mental concepts?
4. Morphing theoretical sémes into 'real' concepts
5. From mental representations to conceptual ontologies
6. What is meaning?
7. Where should we look for meaning?
Part II. Discourse and Society: 8. Language as discourse
9. Society presupposes language, and language presupposes society
10. A closer look at oral societies
11. Differences between oral and literate societies
12. Empirical linguistics deals only with recorded language
13. Meaning, knowledge and the construction of reality
14. The language of the scientific experimental report
15. Diachronicity, intertextuality and hermeneutics
16. Meaning and the interpretation of a haiku
Conclusion.