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Process, image, and meaning : a realistic model of the meanings of sentences and narrative texts / Wolfgang Wildgen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 31.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1994.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027282729
  • 9027282722
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Process, image, and meaning.DDC classification:
  • 401/.43 22
LOC classification:
  • P325 .W478 1994eb
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  • 17.59
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Contents:
PROCESS, IMAGE, AND MEANING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Dedication; Table of contents; PROLOGUE; PART ONE. THE MEANING OF SENTENCES; CHAPTER 1. MEANING AND REALITY; CHAPTER 2. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SOME PROPOSALS FOR A SEMANTICS USING IMAGE- AND PROCESS-SCHEMATA; CHAPTER 3. PROCESS AND IMAGE SCHEMATA IN THE LEXICON AND IN BASIC SYNTAX; CHAPTER 4. MULTISTABILITY, CHAOS AND DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES IN MEANING; CHAPTER 5. GLOBAL REPRESENTATIONAL SPACES; CHAPTER 6. BETWEEN SENTENCES AND NARRATIVE TEXTS; PART TWO. THE MEANING OF ORAL NARRATIVES
CHAPTER 7. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS AND AN IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX OF TEXTSCHAPTER 8. THE SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX; CHAPTER 9. INFORMATION BASED ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL DYNAMICS; CHAPTER 10. CONVERSATIONAL DYNAMICS AND THE PRAGMATICS OF NARRATIVES; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAMES INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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Summary: The general topic of this book is the development of a "realistic" model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of "scientific realism", i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern science: dynamical systems theory. In Part One a model of sentences is put forward. The first chapter outlines the philosophical background of a theory of meaning. Chapter 2 gives a very short summary of recent proposals for a semantic model which considers image-like schemata. In Chapter 3 a realisti
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PROCESS, IMAGE, AND MEANING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Dedication; Table of contents; PROLOGUE; PART ONE. THE MEANING OF SENTENCES; CHAPTER 1. MEANING AND REALITY; CHAPTER 2. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SOME PROPOSALS FOR A SEMANTICS USING IMAGE- AND PROCESS-SCHEMATA; CHAPTER 3. PROCESS AND IMAGE SCHEMATA IN THE LEXICON AND IN BASIC SYNTAX; CHAPTER 4. MULTISTABILITY, CHAOS AND DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES IN MEANING; CHAPTER 5. GLOBAL REPRESENTATIONAL SPACES; CHAPTER 6. BETWEEN SENTENCES AND NARRATIVE TEXTS; PART TWO. THE MEANING OF ORAL NARRATIVES

CHAPTER 7. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS AND AN IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX OF TEXTSCHAPTER 8. THE SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX; CHAPTER 9. INFORMATION BASED ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL DYNAMICS; CHAPTER 10. CONVERSATIONAL DYNAMICS AND THE PRAGMATICS OF NARRATIVES; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAMES INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

The general topic of this book is the development of a "realistic" model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of "scientific realism", i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern science: dynamical systems theory. In Part One a model of sentences is put forward. The first chapter outlines the philosophical background of a theory of meaning. Chapter 2 gives a very short summary of recent proposals for a semantic model which considers image-like schemata. In Chapter 3 a realisti

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