How Language Makes Meaning : Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy
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| Title: | How Language Makes Meaning : Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy |
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| Description: | Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic and other meaning contributors to formulate a new model of how language functions following a pattern of conjoined antonymy. It investigates how embodied simulations,semantic information, deviation, omission, indirectness, figurativity, language play, and other processes leverage rich meaning from only a few words by using inherently biological, cognitive and social frameworks. The interaction of these meaning-making components of language is described and a language-functioning model based on recent neuroscientific research is laid out to allow for a more complete understanding of how language operates. |
| Authors: | Herbert L. Colston |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language and languages, Semantics, Language and logic, Figures of speech |
| Categories: | PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic and other meaning contributors to formulate a new model of how language functions following a pattern of conjoined antonymy. It investigates how embodied simulations,semantic information, deviation, omission, indirectness, figurativity, language play, and other processes leverage rich meaning from only a few words by using inherently biological, cognitive and social frameworks. The interaction of these meaning-making components of language is described and a language-functioning model based on recent neuroscientific research is laid out to allow for a more complete understanding of how language operates. |
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| ISBN: | 9781108421652 9781108383950 |
