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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789506303321

Autore

Halliday M. A. K (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), <1925-2018, >

Titolo

Construing experience through meaning : a language-based approach to cognition / / M.A.K Halliday and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 1999

ISBN

1-283-20536-X

9786613205360

1-4411-3173-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (672 p.)

Collana

Open linguistics series

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Semantics - Psychological aspects

Grammar, Comparative and general

Concepts

Metaphor

Computational linguistics

Cognitive science

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 (pages [619]-641) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction; Part II: The ideation base; Part III: The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems; Part IV: Theoretical and descriptive alternatives; Part V: Language and the construal of experience; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that is complementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning; and hence as something that is construed in language. In other words, the concern is with the construal of human experience as a semantic system; and since language plays the central role not only in storing and exchanging experience but also in co