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Zusatztext For anyone interested in language and how it works in modern day society, Dor offers a compelling account of competing positions in discourse linguistics...Overall, Dor's book has the potential to establish a new foundation for a communicative socially-based linguistic theory. Dor offers a framework for bringing together the two sides of linguistics which typically form psycholinguistics and socio-linguistics, and the book is about unpacking the tensions across the cognitive-social divide that can be said to be at play in trying to theorize new constructs. Informationen zum Autor Daniel Dor received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University, and he is currently head of the Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on a wide variety of issues: the relationship between semantics and syntax, the pragmatics of newspaper headlines, the emergence of a new sociolinguistic regime on the Internet, the construction of political ideology in the language of the media, and the cultural-biological evolution of language and its speakers. Klappentext The book presents a new general theory of language as a collectively-constructed communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that is dedicated to a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. Zusammenfassung The book presents a new general theory of language as a collectively-constructed communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that is dedicated to a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Functional Specificity of Language 3. How the Technology Works 4. Sign and Meaning 5. The Spiral of Relativity 6. Production and Comprehension 7. The Social Autonomy of Syntax 8. The Universality of Diversity 9. Acquisition as a Collective Enterprise 10. The Evolution of Language and its Users 11. Conclusion References ...
Table des matières
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Functional Specificity of Language
- 3. How the Technology Works
- 4. Sign and Meaning
- 5. The Spiral of Relativity
- 6. Production and Comprehension
- 7. The Social Autonomy of Syntax
- 8. The Universality of Diversity
- 9. Acquisition as a Collective Enterprise
- 10. The Evolution of Language and its Users
- 11. Conclusion
- References
A propos de l'auteur
Daniel Dor received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University, and he is currently head of the Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on a wide variety of issues: the relationship between semantics and syntax, the pragmatics of newspaper headlines, the emergence of a new sociolinguistic regime on the Internet, the construction of political ideology in the language of the media, and the cultural-biological evolution of language and its speakers.
