21.2774, Books: Applied Ling/Cognitive Science/Linguistic Theories: Gasparov

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Date: 29-Jun-2010
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Speech, Memory, and Meaning: Gasparov

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From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Speech, Memory, and Meaning: Gasparov

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Title: Speech, Memory, and Meaning 
Subtitle: Intertextuality in Everyday Language 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 214  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110219104-1 

Author: Boris Gasparov

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110219111 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110219104 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

The book pursues a usage-oriented strategy of language description by 
infusing it with the central concept of post-structural semiotics and literary 
theory - that of intertextual memory. Its principal claim is that all new facts of 
language are grounded in the speakers' memory of previous experiences of 
using language. It is a "speech to speech" model: every new fact of speech 
is seen as emerging out of recalled fragments that are reiterated and 
manipulated at the same time. By the same token, the new meaning is 
always superscribed on something familiar and recognizable as its (more or 
less radical) alteration. The model offers a way to describe the meaning of 
language as an open-ended process, the way the meaning of literary works is 
described in modern literary criticism.

The basic unit of the intertextual model is the Communicative Fragment (CF). 
A CF is a fraction of speech of any shape, meaning, and stylistic 
provenance, which speakers recognize and, as a consequence, treat as a 
whole. Its chief attributes are a prefabricated shape, an integral meaning (i.e., 
perceived as a whole whose scope always goes beyond the analyzable), and 
a specific communicative "texture" alluding at a speech genre, a tangible 
speech situation, and profiles of the speaker and the implied addressee. 
Although a CF has a recognizable shape, it is not as definitively set as that 
of stationary linguistic signs (words and morphemes). A CF can be tempered 
with, truncated or expanded, adapted to and fused with other CFs.

The book describes in detail typical devices by which speakers manipulate 
their resources of linguistic memory, whose ever-new constellations in 
speech create infinite possibilities for new variations and shades of meaning.

The book is of interest to linguists in such diverse fields as cognitive 
linguistics, discourse analysis, functional linguistics, language pedagogy, 
translation studies, semiotics, and the philosophy of language. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Communications

Written In: English  (eng)

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