Construing experience through meaning : a language-based approach to cognition /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Continuum,
1999
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| Series: | Open linguistics series / series editor: Robin Fawcett
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction, 1 Theoretical preliminaries, Part II: The ideation base, 2 Overview of the general ideational potential, 3 Sequences, 4 Figures, 5 Elements, 6 Processes, 6 Grammatical metaphor, 7 Comparison with Chinese, Part III: The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems, 8 Building an ideation base, 9 Using the ideation base in text processing, Part IV: Theoretical and descriptive alternatives, 10 Alternatives approaches to meaning, 11 Distortion and tranformation, 12 Figures and processes, Part V: Language and the construal of experience, 13 Language as a multifunctional system-&-process, 14 Construing ideational models: consciousness in daily life and in cognitive science, 15 Language and the making of meaning.