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Date: 29-May-2008
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Language and Meaning: Beedham

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Subject: Language and Meaning: Beedham
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Title: Language and Meaning 
Subtitle: The structural creation of reality 
Series Title: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 55  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SFSL%2055 

Author: Christopher Beedham

Paperback: ISBN:  9789027215642 Pages: 225 Price: Europe EURO 33.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9789027215642 Pages: 225 Price: U.S. $ 49.95

Abstract:

Now Available in Paperback!

This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the
reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the
problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong)
verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections
on German and Russian. The author presents a new and different analysis of
these complex topics which proceeds from the levels of form to meaning
rather than the traditional and generative methodologies that follow the
opposite path from meaning to form. This book will be of interest to all
linguists who have ever confronted the controversial question of the
interaction between lexical exceptions and grammatical rules. The scope of
this volume is rather broad and it compares and contrasts text grammar
versus sentence grammar in an innovative way. 

Table of contents
List of Figures  ix  
List of Tables  xi  
Preface  xiii-xiv  
Introduction  1  
1. Saussurean structuralism  3-17  
2. Aspect  19-31  
3. The passive  33-60  
4. Generative grammar  61-105  
5. Tense and irregular verbs  107-133  
6. Text grammar: Parole versus Langue  135-152  
7. The method of lexical exceptions  153-164  
Conclusion  165-169  
Notes  171-185  
References  187-200  
Appendices  201-206  
Glossary of aspect terms  207-212  
Name index  213-215  
Subject index  217-225  

"This is an ambitious volume which is likely to be of particular interest
to postgraduate students [...]. The concluding chapter sets out the method
of lexical exceptions in a manner easily accessible to students. As a
whole, the book is certain to stimulate lively debates and encourage
empirical research."
 - Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007/43.1:94 

"Besonders gelungen scheint mir die Verbindung von allgemeinen
sprachtheoretischen Fragestellungen mit eigenen konkreten empirischen
Untersuchungsergebnissen zu einzelnen Bereichen der englischen (z.T. auch
der deutschen und der russischen) Grammatik in Gestalt einer
weiterführenden und wegweisenden 'Zusammenschau'. [...] Im Prinzip geht es
überall darum entsprechend dem Saussureschen Konzept von der Unteilbarkeit
des sprachlichen Zeichens, nach Unterschieden in der Bedeutung zu fahnden,
wo es Formenunterschied gibt (auch und gerade dort, wo solche
Bedeutungsunterschiede bisher nicht erkannt worden sind). Mit diesem Ansatz
ist das Buch gleichermaßen originell wie konsequent, vermittelt in seiner
Rigorosität zweifellos auch weitere Impulse für die linguistische Forschung." 
 - Prof. Dr. Gerhard Helbig, Universität Leipzig 

"The chapter on strong verbs is a real detective story, nicely written, and
full of intriguing suggestions, especially on the relationship with sound
symbolism."
 - Prof. David Crystal 

"I admire the way the author has taken the basic research he has done over
many years (notably irregular verbs and the passive) and used it as a point
of departure for a vigorous, outspoken and thought-provoking presentation
of a radical alternative to fashionable orthodoxies."
 - The Lord Quirk FBA 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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