Meanings at the Text Level: A Co-Evolutionary Approach: A Co-Evolutionary Approach (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Band 2) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 50: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics

Nyan, Thanh

 
9783039102501: Meanings at the Text Level: A Co-Evolutionary Approach: A Co-Evolutionary Approach (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Band 2)
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ISBN 10: 3039102508 ISBN 13: 9783039102501
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

If language and the brain are co-evolved and language as a latecomer can avail itself of pre-existing means to solve its own problems, then it should be possible to describe it in terms of processing strategies and constraints arising from brain systems. This is precisely what this study attempts to do with respect to the emergence of three types of higher-level meanings: direct speech acts, built-in conditions for their success and non-defective performance and constraints on sequencing of an argumentational kind. In so doing there are three main issues it needs to address. What types of problem arise at the text level that could have led to the emergence in question? Is there a clear parallel between these problems and those faced by brain systems? What solutions have been evolved to cater for the latter, which could have been co-opted by language? Finally there is the question of the extent to which such an account is compatible with a global theory of brain function such as Edelman’s Theory of Neuronal Group Selection.

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The Author: T. Nyan received a Doctorat d’Etat in Linguistics and Philosophy from the University of Paris (Sorbonne). She teaches French Linguistics and Pragmatics at the University of Manchester. She has published extensively on various aspects of meaning at the text level, including discourse markers, context construction, argumentation and categorization and has held fellowships from Pembroke College, Oxford and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3039102508
ISBN 13 
9783039102501
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
196
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