34.3399, Books: The Language Dynamic: O'Grady, Bartlett (2023)

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Date: 10-Nov-2023
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: The Language Dynamic: O'Grady, Bartlett (2023)


Title: The Language Dynamic
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
                http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/language-dynamic/

Author: Gerard O'Grady
Author: Tom Bartlett
Hardback: ISBN: 9781800503335 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 85
Paperback: ISBN: 9781800503342 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 32
Electronic: ISBN: 9781800503359 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 32
Abstract:

Language is both a socially distributed system, unknowable to any one
individual, and an individually embodied biological system. As such it
is subject to recursive biological and societal pressures which enable
it to function and change. <i>The Language Dynamic</i> identifies a
number of mechanisms that enable the meaning potential of language
from the phoneme through grammar and discourse and onto ideological
systems. These core mechanisms are: (i) articulation and stratality,
by which meaningful units combine in context to form higher-order
meanings which are greater than the sum of their parts; (ii)
redundancy, as the mutually re-enforcing yet unstable relation between
strata which allows for creativity and change; (iii) prospection, as
the means by which speakers effectively and automatically recycle the
syntagmatic patterns that emerge from language as a contextualised
system. In providing an integrated account of the interconnections
between these core mechanisms, the book allow us to conceptualise the
dynamics of language change and growth as at once a motivated and
agentless process.
The book, which underpins functional theories of language with
concepts from biological and cultural evolution, social semiotics and
systems theory, will be relevant to all who are interested in how and
why we can mean and what it means for us as humans to be semiotic
agents.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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