33.124, Books: The Limits of Expression: Kolaiti

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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 10:23:02
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Limits of Expression: Kolaiti

 


Title: The Limits of Expression 
Subtitle: Language, Literature, Mind 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/limits-expression-language-literature-mind?format=PB 


Author: Patricia Kolaiti

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108406291 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108406291 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108406291 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

Taking as its starting point what is sometimes called 'the prison house of
language' - the widespread feeling that language falls terribly short when it
comes to articulating the rich and disparate contents of the human mental
tapestry - this book sets out a radically new view of the interplay between
language, literature and mind. Shifting the focus from the literary text
itself to literature as a case of human agency, it reconsiders a wide range of
interdisciplinary issues including the move from world to mind, the existence
or otherwise of a property of literariness or essence of art, the nature of
literature as a unique output of human cognition and the possible
distinctiveness of the mind that creates it. In constant dialogue with
philosophy, linguistics and the cognitive sciences, this book offers an
invaluable new treatment of literature and literary language, and sketches
novel directions for literary study in the twenty-first century.
 



Prologue; 1. The question of expressibility or how far it is possible to speak
our mind; 2. Language, world and mind; 3. The curse of the phenomenal: a case
from Kinaesthesia; 4. After structural essentialism what? Implications for the
inadequacy of language thesis; 5. Literature as artifact v literature as a
cognitive object. Implications for linguistic pessimism; 6. Literature as
meaning v literature as experience; 7. Interdisciplinarity, theory and the
sciences of mind; Afterword.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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