Construing experience through meaning : a language-based approach to cognition /
This text explores how human beings construe experience: experience as a resource, as a potential for understanding, representing and acting on reality.
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London ; New York :
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Construing experience through meaning : |b a language-based approach to cognition / |c M.A.K. Halliday and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen. |
| 260 | |a London ; |a New York : |b Continuum, |c 2006. | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 657 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a Originally published: London: Cassell, 1999. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a This text explores how human beings construe experience: experience as a resource, as a potential for understanding, representing and acting on reality. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Theoretical preliminaries -- 1.1 Meaning base -- 1.2 Functional grammatics and functional semantics -- 1.3 Metafunctional diversification -- 1.4 The scope of the ideation base -- 1.5 Guiding principles -- 1.6 Codifying -- 1.7 Realization -- 1.8 Grammatical evidence -- 1.9 Ways of representing semantic organization -- 1.10 Organization of the remainder of the book -- Part II: The ideation base -- 2. Overview of the general ideational potential -- 2.1 Phenomena -- 2.2 Sequences -- 2.3 Figures -- 2.4 Elements -- 2.5 Participants -- 2.6 Simple things -- 2.7 Simple qualities -- 2.8 Circumstances -- 2.9 Processes -- 2.10 Summary -- 2.11 Construing experience in the ideation base -- 2.12 Construal in the grammar: summary of grammatical evidence -- 3. Sequences -- 3.1 Natural logic of sequences and prepositional logic -- 3.2 Expansion and projection -- 3.3 Projection -- 3.4 Expansion -- 3.5 The relational character of sequences -- 3.6 Sequences and text -- 3.7 Sequences and grammar -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4. Figures -- 4.1 Two perspectives on figures -- 4.2 Composition: domains of experience -- 4.3 Composition: two models of participation -- 4.4 Degree of participation -- 4.5 Degree of involvement -- 5. Elements -- 5.1 The primary types of element -- 5.2 Similarities and differences between participants and processes -- 5.3 Participants -- 5.4 Processes -- 5.5 Circumstances -- 5.6 Major motifs in the ideation base -- 6. Grammatical metaphor -- 6.1 Congruent and metaphorical variants -- 6.2 The nature of grammatical metaphor -- 6.3 How grammatical metaphor evolves: transcategorization -- 6.4 Types of grammatical metaphor: elemental -- 6.5 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of grammatical metaphor -- 6.6 Metaphor, transcategorization & rankshift: semogenic resources -- 6.7 Interpretation of grammatical metaphor -- 6.8 Representing grammatical metaphor -- 7. Comparison with Chinese -- 7.1 Historical background -- 7.2 Some general features compared -- 7.3 Sequences -- 7.4 Figures -- 7.5 Elements -- 7.6 Processes and things -- 7.7 Grammatical metaphor -- 7.8 The meaning base: concluding remarks. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part III: The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems -- 8. Building an ideation base -- 8.1 General -- 8.2 The language of the weather -- 8.3. The language of recipes -- 9. Using the ideation base in text processing -- 9.1 Organization of a generation system -- 9.2 An example from recipe generation -- 9.3 Ideation base supporting text base -- Part IV: Theoretical and descriptive alternatives -- 10. Alternative approaches to meaning -- 10.1 Logico-philosophical vs. rhetorical-ethnographic orientations -- 10.2 Formal semantics -- 10.3 Cognitive semantics -- 10.4 Work on meaning in NLP -- 10.5 Stratal perspectives on meaning -- 11. Distortion and transformation -- 11.1 Frames of reference -- 11.2 The motif of distortion -- 11.3 The status of qualities: an illustration -- 12. Figures and processes -- 12.1 Criteria for process typology -- 12.2 Temporal profile: activities, accomplishments, achievements, and states -- 12.3 Control (and stativity) -- 12.4 Foley & Van Valin -- 12.5 Inherent indeterminacy, and variation in systemic interpretations -- 12.6 Conclusion -- Part V: Language and the construal of experience -- 13. Language as a multifunctional system-&-process -- 13.1 Types of system-&-process -- 13.2 Review of modes of meaning -- metafunctional and metaphorical -- 13.3 Indeterminacy and probability in language -- 13.4 Polysystemicness -- 14. Construing ideational models: consciousness in daily life and in cognitive science -- 14.1 Models embodied in the ideation base -- 14.2 Sensing: the folk model -- 14.3 From folks to scientists -- 14.4 The model in mainstream cognitive science -- 14.5 Beyond sensing -- folk & scientific -- 15. Language and the making of meaning -- 15.1 Language and other semiotic systems -- 15.2 Construing experience: ontogenetic perspective. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Semantics |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Grammar, Comparative and general. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Concepts. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Metaphor. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Computational linguistics. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cognitive science. | |
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