The language dynamic
O'Grady, Gerard2023
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Language is both a socially distributed system, unknowable to any one individual, and an individually embodied biological system. As such it is subject to recursive biological and societal pressures which enable it to function and change. The authors identify a number of mechanisms that enable the meaning potential of language from the phoneme through grammar and discourse and onto ideological systems, providing an integrated account of the interconnections between these core mechanisms. This allows us to conceptualise the dynamics of language change and growth as at once a motivated and agentless process. The book, which underpins functional theories of language with concepts from biological and cultural evolution, social semiotics and systems theory, will be relevant to all interested in how and why we can mean and what it means for us as humans to be semiotic agents.
Main title:
The language dynamic / Gerard O'Grady and Tom Bartlett.
Author:
O'Grady, Gerard, authorBartlett, Tom, 1962-, author
Imprint:
Sheffield : Equinox Publishing, 2023.
Collation:
240 pages
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781800503342 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
410410 OGRA
Language:
English
BRN:
2414504
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