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

Chafe, Wallace

 
9780226100548: Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226100545 ISBN 13: 9780226100548
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech as well as written fiction and nonfiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination.

Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate 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. While the book focuses on English, there are also discussions of the North American Indian language Seneca and the music of Mozart and of the Seneca people.

This work offers a comprehensive picture of the dynamic natures of language and consciousness that will interest linguists, psychologists, literary scholars, computer scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226100545
ISBN 13 
9780226100548
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
341
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