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Pattern and process : a Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics
- Title
- Pattern and process : a Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics / Michael Fortescue.
- Author
- Fortescue, Michael D.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | P85.W477 F67 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 311 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 6
- Uniform Title
- Human cognitive processing ; v. 6.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Why Whitehead? 1.1. Breaching the divide in linguistics today. 1.2. A cognitive interpretation of Whitehead's 'philosophy of organism'. 1.3. Complementarity -- Ch. 2. A Whiteheadian approach to natural dialogue. 2.1. Speech acts and intentions in a world in process. 2.2. Twenty Questions revisited. 2.3. Inference as suspended judgment -- Ch. 3. The language system: Language as systematized expression. 3.1. The nature and deployment of the linguistic sign. 3.2. Embodied rules -- Ch. 4. The content side of language. 4.1. Propositions and presuppositions. 4.2. Categories, prototypes and metaphor. 4.3. The roots of meaning -- Ch. 5. Language processing and the mind/brain. 5.1. Cognitive assumptions.
- ISBN
- 1588110583
- 9781588110589
- 9027223580
- 9789027223586
- LCCN
- 2001035013
- OCLC
- ocm46671238
- 46671238
- SCSB-1229865
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library