Coping with an Idea of Ecological Grammar

Elzbieta Wasik

ISBN 10: 3631602286 / ISBN 13: 9783631602287

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2010, 2010

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book summarizes scholarly achievements of the author by confronting two descriptive models of linguistic research. Against the background of a language-centered view dealing with its external conditionings in the life of nations and nationalities the author puts forward a human-centered conception of grammar which focuses on the ecosystem of communicating individuals who aggregate into interpersonal and intersubjective groupings for the realization of common tasks. Such a grammar manifests itself in linguistic-communicational properties of people through changeable practices of meaning-creation and stabilizing patterns of meaning-interpretation: firstly, when they create observable relationships while transmitting and receiving the meaning-bearers, and, secondly, when they contribute to the formation of assumable associations while coding and decoding the meanings to the approximately similar extent.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 178 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Coping with an Idea of Ecological Grammar
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2010
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631602286
• ISBN-13: 9783631602287
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 13 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 13 mm
• Gewicht: 350 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This book summarizes scholarly achievements of the author by confronting two descriptive models of linguistic research. Against the background of a language-centered view dealing with its external conditionings in the life of nations and nationalities the author puts forward a human-centered conception of grammar which focuses on the ecosystem of communicating individuals who aggregate into interpersonal and intersubjective groupings for the realization of common tasks. Such a grammar manifests itself in linguistic-communicational properties of people through changeable practices of meaning-creation and stabilizing patterns of meaning-interpretation : firstly, when they create observable relationships while transmitting and receiving the meaning-bearers, and, secondly, when they contribute to the formation of assumable associations while coding and decoding the meanings to the approximately similar extent.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Author: Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik is Associate Professor in the School of English at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań (Poland), where she teaches on Old and Modern Frisian, Ecology of Germanic Languages, and conducts seminars in Human Linguistics. She obtained her primary education in German and Dutch (1981-1986), along with Ph.D. in general linguistics (1995), from the University of Wrocław. Subsequently, she completed her D.Litt. (habilitation) at the AMU in Poznań in 2008. As the author of two books and numerous articles on the conditionings of minority languages and ecological grammar of human linkages, she has marked her presence at international conferences in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, Belgium, Finland, and the United States.