23.1503, Books: Linguistic Supertypes: Durst-Andersen

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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:40:34
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Linguistic Supertypes: Durst-Andersen

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Title: Linguistic Supertypes 
Subtitle: A Cognitive-Semiotic Theory of Human Communication 
Series Title: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 6  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/129008?format=B 

Author: Per Durst-Andersen

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110253153 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110253139 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783110253146 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 34.95

Abstract:

Please note: This is a new edition of a previously announced text.

Now available as paperback!

The book offers a completely new view of language and of languages such as 
Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Georgian, Danish and English by dividing them 
into three supertypes on the basis of a step-by-step examination of their 
relationship to perception and cognition, their representation of situations and 
their use in oral and written discourse. The dynamic processing of visual 
stimuli involves three stages: input (experience), intake (understanding) and 
outcome (a combination). The very choice among three modalities of 
existence gives a language a certain voice -- either the voice of reality based 
on situations, the speaker's voice involving experiences or the hearer's voice 
grounded on information. This makes grammar a prime index: all symbols are 
static and impotent and need a vehicle, i.e. grammar, which can bring them 
to the proper point of reference. Language is shown to be a living organism 
with a determinant category, aspect, mood or tense, which conquers territory 
from other potential competitors trying to create harmony between verbal and 
nominal categories. It is demonstrated that the communication processes are 
different in the three supertypes, although in all three cases the speaker must 
choose between a public and a private voice before the grammar is put into 
use. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     History of Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semiotics

Written In: English  (eng)

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