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

• Autore: Halliday M. A. K (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), <1925-2018, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (672 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.43
• Soggetto topico: Semantics - Psychological aspects; Grammar, Comparative and general; Concepts; Metaphor; Computational linguistics; Cognitive science
• Persona (resp. second.): MatthiessenChristian M. I. M.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Construing experience through meaning
• ISBN: 1-283-20536-X; 9786613205360; 1-4411-3173-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814943503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Open linguistics series.