Isbn: 9781108421652 - how language makes meaning: embodiment and conjoined antonymy (4 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 281 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic and other meaning contributors to formulate a new model of how language functions following a pattern of conjoined antonymy. It investigates how embodied simulations,semantic information, deviation, omission, indirectness, figurativity, language play, and other processes leverage rich meaning from only a few words by using inherently biological, cognitive and social frameworks. The interaction of these meaning-making components of language is described and a language-functioning model based on recent neuroscientific research is laid out to allow for a more complete understanding of how language operates.…