Beyond meaning / edited by Elly Ifantidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Louis de Saussure, University of Neuchatel, Tim Wharton, University of Brighton.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021] |
| Description | vi, 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Ifantidou, Elly. |
| Other author/creator | Saussure, Louis de. |
| Other author/creator | Wharton, Tim. |
| Other author/creator | Beyond Meaning (Conference) (2017 : Athens, Greece) |
| Series | Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 324 |
| Abstract | "Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for the communication of non-propositional phenomena such as moods, emotions and impressions? What type of cognitive response do these phenomena trigger, if not conceptual or propositional? Do creative metaphors and unknown words in second languages and other 'pointers' to 'conceptual regions' communicate concepts learned from language alone? How might the descriptive ineffability of interjections, free indirect speech etc. be accommodated within a theory of communication? What of those working on the aesthetics of artworks, music and literature? What can evolution tell us about ineffability? The papers in this volume address these fascinating questions head-on. They represent a range of different attempts to answer them and, in so doing, allow us to pose exciting new questions. The aim, to bring the ineffable firmly within the grasp of theoretical pragmatics"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Based on the Beyond Meaning conference held in September 2017 at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021020968 |
| ISBN | 9789027209269 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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