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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827856103321

Autore

Ruthrof Horst

Titolo

Language and imaginability / / by Horst Ruthrof

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5852-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

401.9

Soggetti

Psycholinguistics

Imagination

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Language and Imaginability pursues the hypothesis that natural language is fundamentally heterosemiotic, combining as it does the symbolicity of word sounds with the iconicity of motivated signifieds conceived as socially organized mental events. Viewed phenomenologically, language is regarded as an ontically heteronomous construct performed by speakers within the boundaries of sufficient semiosis under the control of the speech community. From both angles, a commitment to some form of inters...