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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511616803321

Titolo

Semiotics of culture and language . Volume 1 Language as social semiotic / / edited by Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 1984

ISBN

1-4742-8573-2

1-4742-4715-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Linguistics : Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Language and culture

Language and languages

Semiotics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Introduction / Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai -- 1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue / M.A.K. Halliday -- 2 Metaphors of Information / John Regan -- 3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language / Yoshihiko Ikegami -- 4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting /  Jeffrey Ellis -- 5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning / Ruqaiya Hasan -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Semiotics - the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems - is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychological. The sign systems that we use for interaction with other living beings determine our potential for thought and social action, and language is central among them. It is the implicit claim of this two-volume work that linguistics has something very specific to give to semiotics, and many would further claim that relational network models of language in particular, i.e. systematic and stratificational linguistics, have a fundamental contribution to make."--Bloomsbury



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