Discourse, Consciousness, and Time - The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

Chafe demonstrates that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present and the free indirect style.

Summary

This text demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an understanding of the way the mind works. Chafe shows that comprehending the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns and clause structure.

Product details

• Authors: Wallace Chafe, Wallace L. Chafe
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1994
• EAN: 9780226100548
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10054-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics