20.601, Books: Cognitive Science: Seuren

[LINGUIST Network]

LINGUIST List: Vol-20-601. Thu Feb 26 2009. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 20.601, Books: Cognitive Science: Seuren

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Randall Eggert, U of Utah  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemeh at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 10-Feb-2009
From: Jennifer Clark < jennifer.clark at oup.com >
Subject: Language in Cognition: Seuren
 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:58:07
From: Jennifer Clark [jennifer.clark at oup.com]
Subject: Language in Cognition: Seuren

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=20-601.html&submissionid=205028&topicid=2&msgnumber=1
  



Title: Language in Cognition 
Subtitle: Language From Within Volume I 
Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199559473 


Author: Pieter A.M. Seuren

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199559473 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 60.00


Abstract:

Language in Cognition argues that language is based on the human construal
of reality. Humans refer to and quantify over virtual entities with the
same ease as they do over actual entities: the natural ontology of
language, the author argues, must therefore comprise both actual and
virtual entities and situations. He reformulates speech act theory,
suggesting that the primary function of language is less the transfer of
information than the establishing of socially binding commitments or
appeals based on the proposition expressed. This leads him first to a new
analysis of the systems and structures of cognitive language machinery and
their ecological embedding, and finally to a reformulation of the notion of
meaning, in which sentence meaning is distinguished from lexical meaning
and the vagaries and multifarious applications of lexical meanings may be
explained and understood.

This is the first of a two-volume foundational study of language, published
under the title, Language from Within. Pieter Seuren discusses and analyses
such apparently diverse issues as the ontology underlying the semantics of
language, speech act theory, intensionality phenomena, the machinery and
ecology of language, sentential and lexical meaning, the natural logic of
language and cognition, and the intrinsically context-sensitive nature of
language - and shows them to be intimately linked. Throughout his ambitious
enterprise, he maintains a constant dialogue with established views,
reflecting on their development from Ancient Greece to the present. The
resulting synthesis concerns central aspects of research and theory in
linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science


Written In: English  (eng)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=39439


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Brill          
		http://www.brill.nl	

	Cambridge Scholars Publishing          
		http://www.c-s-p.org	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Emerald Group Publishing Limited          
		http://www.emeraldinsight.com/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elra.info.	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Education          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
		http://www.narr.de/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Peter Lang AG          
		http://www.peterlang.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
		http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Linguistic Association of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 
	





-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-20-601