Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781009246026
UPC: 9781009246026
ISBN: 9781009246026
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Format: Paperback, 302 pages
Author: Colston, Herbert L.
Book Title: How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoin
Item Height: 1.6 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.4 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
