Overview

This volume contains selected contributions from the colloquium From Sign to Text' (Ben Gurion University, 1985) and combines the diverse interdisciplinary interests and approaches of the contributors in a fundamentally shared definition of language seen as a flexible and open-ended system of systems' revolving around the notion of signs used by human beings to communicate. The special interrelationship between signs and texts is discussed both theoretically and methodologically. The collection consists of an English and a French section.

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Author:   Yishai Tobin
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   20
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9789027232922

ISBN 10:   902723292
Pages:   545
Publication Date:   01 January 1989
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. English section; 4. I. Sign:Context:Text in linguistic analysis; 5. Why speech seems ungrammatical (by Klein-Andreu, Flora); 6. On the role of form in going from sign to text and from text to understanding (by Lattey, Elsa M.); 7. Space, time, and point-of-view in the Modern Hebrew verb (by Tobin, Yishai); 8. Verbal aspects and scripts: An example of interaction between grammatical meanings and cognitive models (by Lehmann, Volkmar); 9. Syntagmatic relations and paradigms: Tenses and moods in ancient Greek verbal structure. A semantic analysis of the ancient Greek verb system (by Schooneveld, Cornelis H. van); 10. A study in linguistic sign theory: The suffix -K-A/-KA in modern Russian (by Andrews, Edna); 11. The challenge of polysemy (by Hirtle, Walter); 12. Signs from a growing (creole) language (by Putte, Florimon C.M. van); 13. Does sign-oriented linguistics have a future?: On sign, text, and the falsifiability of theoretical constructs (by Kirsner, Robert S.); 14. II. The text as sign in literature; 15. The sheep in wolf's clothing: Thoughts on modern variations of an ancient fable (by Goetz-Stankiewicz, Marketa); 16. Svejk Don Quixote Jesus Christ (by Arie-Gaifman, Hana); 17. The Agnonian text: A study in polaric semiology (by Aphek, Edna); 18. Open reading of a closed text: Zuniga's Puertas abiertas, puertas cerradas (by Reina Carmona, Elena); 19. III. From sign to text in specific text genres; 20. From sign to text in mathematical discourse (by Ard, Josh); 21. Speaker's of commitment and involvement in discourse (by Katriel, Tamar); 22. The sign, its addresser and addressee: Aspects of legal and liturgical texts (by Kurzon, Dennis); 23. The text as referent: an examination of purim torah (by Kahan-Newman, Zelda); 24. From text to sign: exploring translation strategies (by Snell-Hornby, Mary); 25. IV. Signs of deviance in texts; 26. Normal-deviant-disturbed?: The socio-psychological theory of text planning (by Wodak, Ruth); 27. On transcribing junkie voices (by Kaplan, Charles D.); 28. Denial and violence: Signs of a historical context. A comparison of story-telling in two right-extremist youth groups (by Inowlocki, Lena); 29. Deviance in the intonation patterns: A contrastive study of the normal hearing vs. hearing impaired Hebrew speaking Israeli children (by Frank, Yael); 30. Ethnographic discrepancies in the aesthetic of the Marshfield Paper Boys' voice disguise (by Lichman, Simon); 31. French section; 32. Du signe au texte en linguistique, litterature et dans les arts; 33. I. Le signe linguistique; 34. Communication: Le genre des noms de villes comme signe linguistique (by Feigenbaum, Susanne); 35. Le signe idiomatique et la production textuelle (by Greciano, Gertrud); 36. Quand le texte ne fait plus signe. Problemes du Francais de France et de l'atlas de l'ile-de-France (by Simoni-Aurembou, Marie-Rose); 37. Methodes et problemes de la lexicologie comparee appliquee a la traduction (by Arntz, Reiner); 38. Relativation et conditions d'enonciation: Remarques a propos de certaines relatives marginales (by Pierrard, Michel); 39. II. Le texte communicatif; 40. Entre sens et non-sens dans une perspective textuelle (by Arcaini, Enrico); 41. Le sens propre du figure : Questions sur la texture linguistique de l'humour (by Braester, Marlena); 42. A la recherche d'une steganographie dans l'oeuvre romanesque de XVIIe siecle (by Zinguer, Ilana); 43. L'image-porche ou la premiere page enluminee dans les romans medievaux (by Dauzier, Martine); 44. Les marques de l'enonciation dans le vitrail chartrain (by Deremble, Jean-Paul); 45. Name index; 46. Subject index

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