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The mental corpus : how language is represented in the mind
- Title
- The mental corpus : how language is represented in the mind / John R. Taylor.
- Author
- Taylor, John R., 1944-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Supplementary Content
- Table of contents
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- Description
- viii, 321 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing the words and the first the rules for combining them. He proposes instead that an individual's knowledge of a language can be thought of as a repository of memories of linguistic experience. Each encounter with the language, he argues, leaves a trace in our minds. We record the forms of utterances, the concepts and interpretations associated with them, and the contexts in which they were heard or seen. Features of incoming language - a word, a phrase, a meaning, a voice quality, an interactional situation - resonate with items already stored. Similarities between stored items give rise to generalizations of varying degrees of certainty and precision, which in turn are able to sanction new and innovative expressions.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-312) and indexes.
- Contents
- Conceptualizing language -- The dictionary and the grammar book : the generative model of linguistic knowledge -- Words and their behaviour -- Idioms -- Speaking idiomatically -- Constructions -- Frequency -- Skewed frequencies as a design feature of language -- Learning from input -- Polysemy -- Creativity and inovation -- Blending -- The mental corpus.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-2872
- ISBN
- 9780199290802
- 0199290806
- OCLC
- 759153172
- Author
- Taylor, John R., 1944-
- Title
- The mental corpus : how language is represented in the mind / John R. Taylor.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-312) and indexes.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-2872