Herbert L. Colston

How Language Makes Meaning (eBook, ePUB)

Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic and other meaning contributors to formulate a new model of how language functions following a pattern of conjoined antonymy. It investigates how embodied simulations,semantic information, deviation, omission, indirectness, figurativity, language play, and other processes leverage rich meaning from only a few words by using inherently biological, cognitive and social frameworks. The interaction of these meaning-making components of language is described and a language-functioning model based on recent neuroscientific research is laid out to allow for a more complete understanding of how language operates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108382038
• Artikelnr.: 62735361

Autorenporträt

Herbert L. Colston is Professor and Chair for the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The coin toss
2. Deviance
3. Omission
4. Imprecision
5. Indirectness
6. Figurativeness
7. Language play
8. The social media
9. The art of language
10. The end game
Epilogue: a clearing revealing an eclipse
References
Index.