31.1215, Books: Follow the Signs: Sangster

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:40:00
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Follow the Signs: Sangster

 


Title: Follow the Signs 
Subtitle: Archetypes of consciousness embodied in the signs of language 
Series Title: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 79  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sfsl.79 


Author: Rodney B. Sangster

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261571 Pages: 175 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261571 Pages: 175 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261571 Pages: 175 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204936 Pages: 175 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204936 Pages: 175 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204936 Pages: 175 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes
the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upon how
linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness.
At the rational level, where signs are necessarily experienced in context,
they are primarily polysemic. At the transpersonal or pre-contextual level,
however, they are monosemic, constituting a dynamic and self-organizing
relational structure capable of producing a potentially infinite variety of
contextual applications. The two levels are united by a stochastic or somatic
selection process called contextualization, where feedback from experience
assures the evolution of the system. The relational structure itself is
composed of archetypes of space and time consciousness that derive from the
evolution of the linguistic sign from the signaling behavior of antecedent
species. Detailed analyses are provided to explain how the archetypes
structure meaning in both the grammatical and lexical spheres, as well as in
syntax.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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