New directions in linguistics and semiotics / edited by James E. Copeland.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1984.
Description
xi, 269 p. : ill.

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Series
  • Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 32. [More in this series]
  • Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 32 [More in this series]
Summary note
This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate future.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographies and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • PREFACE Linguistics at Rice University The First Two Decades
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE
  • INTRODUCTION On the Aims of Linguistics
  • REFERENCES CITED
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE
  • CHAPTER 1. Mellow Glory See Language Steadily and See It Whole
  • APPENDIX
  • CHAPTER 2. The Uniqueness Fallacy
  • NOTES
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO
  • CHAPTER 3. Linguistics in the University The Question of Social Accountability
  • CHAPTER 4. Lessons from American Indian Linguistics
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE
  • CHAPTER 5. Reshaping Linguistics Context and Content
  • Context-responsive
  • Semantics
  • Interfaces with other disciplines
  • CHAPTER 6. The Many Linguistic Functions of Duration
  • CHAPTER 7. Lexical Semantics and Text Semantics
  • The data of semantics
  • Autonomy issues
  • Another analogy
  • Meaning and truth conditions
  • Ingredients of the needed model
  • Phenomena requiring explanation within the new model
  • The point
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR
  • CHAPTER 8. Linguistics, Poetics, and the Literary Genres
  • CHAPTER 9. Subjects + Objects The Current State of Visual Semiotics
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE
  • CHAPTER 10. Symptom
  • CHAPTER 11. Semiotic Laws in Linguistics and Natural Science
  • Language as an instrument of cognition and the law of semiotic relevance
  • Static and dynamic metalanguage
  • The semiotic basis for abstraction
  • Semiotic reality
  • The semiotic versus generativist notion of language
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-283-04735-7
  • 9786613047359
  • 90-272-8643-4
OCLC
712015668
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