Approaches to cognition through text and discourse:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin M. de Gruyter ©2004
Series:Trends in linguistics 147
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
This book explores the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists and cognitive linguists are interested in. It procedes from considerations of information structuring, coherence and foregrounding to those of negotiation of meaning in situational and cultural contexts. The cognitive issues brought to the fore range from assumptions that we make about the interlocuters' memory constraints, the relative salience that we give to and recognize in elements of discourse, prototypicality and the figure-ground distinction reflected in language use, locative concerns, iconicity, negotiation bet
Physical Description:viii, 214 pages
ISBN:9783110892895
3110892898
3110177919
9783110177916

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