By Michael Fortescue
ISBN-10: 9027299358
ISBN-13: 9789027299352
The aim of this booklet is to demonstrate the relevance to linguistics at the present time of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. even if principally overlooked by means of linguists, Whitehead has in reality a lot to assert as regards the cognitive methods underpinning language trend. His idea of symbolism conceives of language because the ‘systematization of expression’, and relates aspiring to feeling (in the broadest sense). The Whiteheadian point of view permits a synthesis of the mental and the social ways to language that doesn't fall into one or one other trendy type of reductionism. the amount represents a primary program of Whitehead’s considering to a wide diversity of linguistic phenomena, starting from speech act conception to the creation and comprehension of texts, from language acquisition to old swap and the evolution of language. it's argued that Whitehead’s holistic philosophy is uniquely fitted to the view of language as an emergent phenomenon ― whether one’s method of cognition is through the ‘nativist’ or the ‘functionalist’ direction.
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In fact the game is not quite over. B does not realize - or has perhaps forgotten - that there are actually two forth bridges. This A now demands to know before granting B s success- b understandably supposes that it is the famous one, the one about which one hears in school that it is always being 1 . 43 44 Pattern ind IVcifessi painted (because it ia so large, a new coat being already needed at the i f rst end by the time the other one is reached). Hi a jt tempt to make this dear is rather disjointed - perhaps he is surprised to hear that there are two, He quickly drops his introductory'framing1 remark about when he was a schoolboy, and jumps to the main attribute oi the bridge he can recall then, realizing that a concrete choice is being forced on him (between a known bridge and a relatec but to him unknown one), he makes a wild guess at the 'new' one, assuming ' that the difference between the two is one of age.
G. the atomic or the planetary] must of course be envisaged as correspondingiy much shorter or much longer. It is interesting to compare McNeill's concept of the growth point1 in which a ' gestural image and a verbal category1 coincide as the germ of an individual unit of thought! gesture and language being in a complementary relationship (whether or not they are manifest in outer speech)-"6 He estimates the average length of such a unit of self-organisation' as about one and a half seconds [McNeill 1992:242).
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