31.1335, Books: The Limits of Expression: Kolaiti

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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:31:06
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Limits of Expression: Kolaiti

 


Title: The Limits of Expression 
Subtitle: Language, Literature, Mind 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/limits-expression-language-literature-mind?format=HB 


Author: Patricia Kolaiti

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108418669 Pages: 150 Price: U.K. £ 80
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108418669 Pages: 150 Price: U.S. $ 110


Abstract:

Taking as its starting point what is sometimes called 'the prison house of
language' - the widespread feeling that language falls terribly short when it
comes to articulating the rich and disparate contents of the human mental
tapestry - this book sets out a radically new view of the interplay between
language, literature and mind. Shifting the focus from the literary text
itself to literature as a case of human agency, it reconsiders a wide range of
interdisciplinary issues including the move from world to mind, the existence
or otherwise of a property of literariness or essence of art, the nature of
literature as a unique output of human cognition and the possible
distinctiveness of the mind that creates it. In constant dialogue with
philosophy, linguistics and the cognitive sciences, this book offers an
invaluable new treatment of literature and literary language, and sketches
novel directions for literary study in the twenty-first century.

Accessible to a wide audience across multiple disciplines, with varying
degrees of expertise 

Shows how linguistics and cognitive theories can both influence and be
influenced by the study of literature and art 

Maps out new directions for literary study in the twenty-first century
Prologue


1. The question of expressibility or how far it is possible to speak our mind
2. Language, world and mind
3. The curse of the phenomenal: a case from Kinaesthesia
4. After structural essentialism what? Implications for the inadequacy of
language thesis
5. Literature as artifact v literature as a cognitive object. Implications for
linguistic pessimism
6. Literature as meaning v literature as experience
7. Interdisciplinarity, theory and the sciences of mind
Afterword.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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