Umfang:
Online-Ressource (762 pages)
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illustrations, portrait
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27 cm
Ausgabe:
2d, revised edition (Online-Ausg.)
ISBN:
9783110812244
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9783111657158
Serie:
Janua linguarum. Series maior 24
Inhalt:
Language as behavior -- Etic and emic standpoints for the description of behavior -- The structure of behavior illustrated -- Focus illustrated -- The behavioreme (including the sentence) -- The minimum unit of the feature mode of the behavioreme (including the morpheme) -- The minimum unit of the distribution mode of the behavioreme (including the tagmeme) -- The minimum unit of the manifestation mode of the behavioreme (including the phoneme) -- Higher-layered units of the manifestation mode of the uttereme (including the syllable, stress group, and juncture) -- Higher-layered units of the feature mode of the uttereme -- Higher-layered units of the distribution mode of the syntagmeme -- Trimodal restrictions on setting up emic units -- Mode-like emic units and systems -- Fused units -- Interlocking hierarchies and systems -- Meaning -- The context of behavior
Inhalt:
"Ten years full of linguistic development have passed since the first part (1954, Chapters 1-7) of the Preliminary Edition appeared, setting up the basic form of tagmemic theory, and nine since the phonological data were published (1955, Chapters 8-9). In the United States, transformational attention to generative grammar, and in Britain a development of prosodic views into wider categorical concepts have changed the context into which any book now fits. The basic difference between the first and second editions of this book represents an attempt to show how tagmemic theory relates to these and other recent views. The original biliographical sections (retained here for historical orientation) seem to read as if coming out of another age, so fast have battle grounds shifted. I have added to these sections, however, several hundreds of references to the newer materials of the decade. Dr. Ruth Brend has been responsible for trying to catch my inaccuracies in these and the earlier references. The attention which tagmemic theory earlier directed to the nature of units-in-general, however, seems even more needed now than in 1954. The explicit conventional phoneme has in many areas disappeared from view; the morpheme--though few sense it yet--is similarly threatened; grammatical units such as 'subject' are politely and helpfully introduced as labels--only to be brusquely bowed out as theory. The tagmemic theory of this book, on the contrary, has tried to specify characteristics of units (contrast, variation, distribution--of feature mode, manifestation mode, distribution mode) as related to a three-way hierarchical relationship (lexicon, phonology, grammar). Insistence on three hierarchies which are partially independent while also partially interlocking continues to be necessary in the present climate of opinion, as over against a two-hierarchy arrangement (of phonology versus lexico-grammar) or as a corrective to an attempt to generate all phenomena as a monistic system. Here, again, the contribution of the book is as much needed as in 1954. In addition, our theoretical emphasis upon the integration of linguistic structure into a view which accommodates without jar the larger structures of humans-while-behaving-nonverbally (with the relation of language-behavior-in-context to the form-meaning composites of language), and the structures of people in societal groups, continues to be needed. The work of this book will not have been finished until some such over-view stimulates more fruit in an extensive, integrated approach (in descriptive fact, as it does here in tentative conceptual framework) to all varieties of human mental and physical behavior, organization, and production"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [679]-729) and index. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2015; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2015 dcunns
Sprache:
Englisch
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