UID:
almafu_9959232960202883
Format:
xi, 269 p. :
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ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-04735-7
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9786613047359
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90-272-8643-4
Series Statement:
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 32
Content:
This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate future.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE Linguistics at Rice University The First Two Decades -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE -- INTRODUCTION On the Aims of Linguistics -- NOTE -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE -- CHAPTER 1. Mellow Glory See Language Steadily and See It Whole -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 2. The Uniqueness Fallacy -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO -- CHAPTER 3. Linguistics in the University The Question of Social Accountability -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 4. Lessons from American Indian Linguistics -- INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE -- CHAPTER 5. Reshaping Linguistics Context and Content -- Context-responsive -- Semantics -- Interfaces with other disciplines -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 6. The Many Linguistic Functions of Duration -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 7. Lexical Semantics and Text Semantics -- Semantics -- The data of semantics -- Autonomy issues -- Another analogy -- Meaning and truth conditions -- Ingredients of the needed model -- Phenomena requiring explanation within the new model -- The point -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 8. Linguistics, Poetics, and the Literary Genres -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 9. Subjects + Objects The Current State of Visual Semiotics -- NOTE -- REFERENCES CITED -- INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE -- CHAPTER 10. Symptom -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 11. Semiotic Laws in Linguistics and Natural Science -- Language as an instrument of cognition and the law of semiotic relevance -- Static and dynamic metalanguage -- The semiotic basis for abstraction -- Semiotic reality -- The semiotic versus generativist notion of language -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-3524-4
Language:
English
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