Discourse, structure and linguistic choice : the theory and applications of molecular sememics /: the theory and applications of molecular sememics. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: T. Price Caldwell ; Oliver Cresswell, Robert J. Stainton, editors.
• Authors: Caldwell, T. Price
• Editors: Cresswell, Oliver; Stainton, Robert
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Preliminary Personal Remarks; Caldwell and 'Moderate Structuralism'; Caldwell on Linguistic Meaning; Applications; Part I: The Theory; Chapter 1: The Epistemologies of Linguistic Science: Reassessing Structuralism, Redefining the Sememe; 1.1 Linguistic History; 1.1.1 From Empiricism to Structuralism; 1.1.2 Structuralism As System: Philosophy, History, Anthropology, Sociology; 1.1.3 The Move to Computationalism; 1.2 Reassessing the Problem; 1.3 A Counterproposal: Redefining the Sememe Chapter 2: Molecular Sememics: Toward A Model of an Ordinary Language2.1 The Redefinition of the Linguistic Sign; 2.2 Re-evaluating the Structure of Language; 2.3 History; 2.3.1 Origins of the Arbitrariness Doctrine; 2.3.2 Mitigations of the Arbitrariness Doctrine; 2.3.3 The Power of the Formalism; 2.4 Molecular Sememics and European Structuralism; 2.5 The Conventionalizing Process; 2.6 Toward a Grammar of an Ordinary Language; 2.7 Conclusion: Further Implications; Chapter 3: Whorf, Orwell, and Mentalese (The Molecular Sememe: Some Implications for Semantics) Chapter 4: The Coerciveness of Discourse4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Discontinuous Landscape; 4.3 Mutual Presupposition; 4.4 Directionality; Chapter 5: Molecular Sememics (Unfinished Book Manuscript); 5.1 The Molecular Sememe; 5.1.1 The Usefulness of the Model; 5.1.2 The Model; 5.1.3 Some Implications of the Model; 5.2 History and Method; 5.2.1 History; 5.3 Tactics and Assumptions; 5.3.1 Tactics: Molecular Sememics As a Theory of Parole; 5.3.2 Methodological Principles; 5.3.3 Illustrations; 5.4 Qualities of the Sememe; 5.4.1 The Sememe As Macrostructure; 5.4.2 The Sememe Belongs to Parole 5.5 Teleological StructuresPart II: The Applications; Chapter 6: The Molecular Sememe: A Model for Literary Interpretation; Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Plain Fact: Stevens' "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters"; Chapter 8: American Shoot-Out: Hemingway vs. Richard Ford; Chapter 9: What I Have Learned About English from Being in Japan (Or: Why Can't Japanese Students of English Manage "A", "An" and "The"?); 9.1 "A" and "The"; 9.2 Discourse Salience; 9.3 Old Information, New Information, Current Topic; 9.3.1 Default Salience Order; 9.3.2 Strategically Manipulating Salience Order; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 401; Language and languages -- Philosophy; Linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Language and languages -- Philosophy; Linguistics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319754413; 3319754416
• Related ISBNs: 9783319754406; 3319754408
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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