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Subject(s)

• Psycholinguistics [Browse]
• Knowledge representation (Information theory) [Browse]
• Cognitive grammar [Browse]

Related name

• Liddle, Michel [Browse]
• Stonham, John T. [Browse]

Series

• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 112. [More in this series]
• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 112 [More in this series]

Summary note

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is grounded in Emile Benveniste's (1902-1976) revolutionary answer to Saussure's opposition between competence (langue) and performance (parole) captured in the idea of énonciation, in which the relationship between an individual and a language is one of appropriation. The translation has been prepared to

Notes

Translation of a transcript of the author's D.E.A. seminar in linguistics given 1983-1984.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-160) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION IN LINGUISTIC THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; FOREWORD & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; Enunciation; Culioli 's Enunciative Model in Brief; The 1983-1984 DEA (Doctoral) Seminar in Perspective; An English-speaking Presence; Methodology of the Translation; CHAPTER 1. DEFINING THE TERRITORY; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE 1983-1984 D.E.A. SEMINAR; 1. Language and Languages; 2. Observations and Theorization; 3. Representation; 4. Validation.; ON DEFINING THE TERRITORY FOLLOWING THE D.E.A. SEMINAR
• CHAPTER 2. REPRESENTING NOTIONS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE 1983-1984 D.E.A. SEMINAR; [Three Types of Notions]; [Notions and Words]; [The Prototype]; ON NOTIONS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION FOLLOWING THE D.EA. SEMINAR; CHAPTER 3. NOTIONAL DOMAINS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; Notions and Occurrences; The Class of Occurrences and Individuation; The Organizing Centre; Identifying and Differentiating; [The gradient]; [Interior, Exterior, Boundary]; A Note on the Centre; Open / Closed, and Intension /Extension; The High Degree; Constructing the Notional Domain
• The Boundary Revisited Intension and Extension; The Problem of the Boundary; Negation; [Positive, Negative and the Domain]; Pouvoir and Constructing the Notional Domain; [Trans-categorical Analyses and the Turn-back Point]; A Second Look at the Attracting Centre; ON NOTIONAL DOMAINS FOLLOWING THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; CHAPTER 4. UTTERING, ASSERTING AND INTERROGATIVES; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; Preassertive Constructs; From Lexis to Assertion; Uttering; Linearizing; The interrogative; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; [Enunciator / Co-enunciator vs. Locutor / Interlocutor]
• The Interrogative and the Notional Domain A Note on ""heuristic approach""; [The Interrogative and the Notional Domain (2); Biased Questions; The Three Configurations; [Asserting]; Negative interrogative: Did he not come?; [The Negative interrogative and Configuration 2]; [The Negative interrogative and Configuration 3]; [From Equiponderance to Tags]; ON CONSTRUCTING ASSERTIONS FOLLOWING THE D.EA.SEMINAR; CHAPTER 5. MODALIZING; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; Modality 1; Modality 4; [Linguistics and the Problem of Reference]; Modality 2; Modality 3
• Modality as a detached representation of reality Fictitious locating and examples of the same; The Intersubjective Relationship (Modality 4); Being able to [pouvoir]: another look at the problem - a modal viewpoint; [Linking the Detached Locator to the Plane of Assertion]; [Between Modality and Aspect]; ON MODALIZING FOLLOWING THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; CHAPTER 6. ASPECTS AND QUANTIFIABILIZATION; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; EXCERPTS FROM THE D.E.A. SEMINAR; Quantification Linked to the Type of Scanning; ON ASPECTS AND QUANTIFIABILIZATION FOLLOWING THE D.EA. SEMINAR
• CHAPTER 7. ASPECT, DIATHESIS AND QUANTIFIABILIZATION

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ISBN

• 1-283-31276-X
• 9786613312761
• 90-272-7653-6

OCLC

759101337

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