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9780826488923

Construing Experience Through Meaning A Language-Based Approach to Cognition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826488923

  • ISBN10:

    0826488927

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-06-22
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an

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Part I: Introduction1. Theoretical preliminariesPart II: The ideation base2. Overview of the general ideational potential3. Sequences4. Figures5. Elements6. Grammatical metaphors7. Comparison with ChinesePart III: The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems8. Building an ideation base9. Using the ideation base in text processingPart IV: Theoretical and descriptive alternatives10. Alternative approaches to meaning11. Distortion and transformation12. Figures and processesPart V: Language and the construal of experience13. Language as a multifunctional system and process14. Construing ideational models: consciousness in daily life and in cognitive science15. Language and the making of meaning

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