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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816760603321

Autore

Wildgen Wolfgang

Titolo

Process, image, and meaning : a realistic model of the meanings of sentences and narrative texts / / Wolfgang Wildgen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1994

ISBN

9786613222091

90-272-8272-2

1-283-22209-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 31

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Imagery (Psychology)

Semantics

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

PROCESS, IMAGE, AND MEANING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Dedication; Table of contents; PROLOGUE; PART ONE. THE MEANING OF SENTENCES; CHAPTER 1. MEANING AND REALITY; CHAPTER 2. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SOME PROPOSALS FOR A SEMANTICS USING IMAGE- AND PROCESS-SCHEMATA; CHAPTER 3. PROCESS AND IMAGE SCHEMATA IN THE LEXICON AND IN BASIC SYNTAX; CHAPTER 4. MULTISTABILITY, CHAOS AND DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES IN MEANING; CHAPTER 5. GLOBAL REPRESENTATIONAL SPACES; CHAPTER 6. BETWEEN SENTENCES AND NARRATIVE TEXTS; PART TWO. THE MEANING OF ORAL NARRATIVES

CHAPTER 7. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS AND AN IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX OF TEXTSCHAPTER 8. THE SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX; CHAPTER 9. INFORMATION BASED ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL DYNAMICS; CHAPTER 10. CONVERSATIONAL DYNAMICS AND THE PRAGMATICS OF NARRATIVES; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAMES INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The general topic of this book is the development of a "realistic" model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in



perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of "scientific realism", i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern science: dynamical systems theory.In Part One a model of sentences is put forward. The first chapter outlines the philosophical background of a theory of meaning. Chapter 2 gives a very short summary of recent proposals for a semantic model which considers image-like schemata. In Chapter 3 a realisti