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Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien. How well does linguistics 'know' language? What are the essential properties of language? Where do signs come from, and how is knowledge 'represented' in them? These and other related questions are in the focus of discussion in « Sign, Meaning, Knowledge. The book offers a conceptual synthesis of the vast theoretical and empirical data accumulated by the cognitive science. As a result of such synthesis, a unified methodology for treating language as a natural phenomenon is proposed. Taking the semiotic nature of language as a starting point, and drawing on the epistemological framework of autopoiesis as the organization of the living, the author attempts to describe the knowledge-representational function of language as the function of a biological system in its adaptive interactions with the environment. This takes linguistics a step further toward its integration with biology and other natural sciences. Contents: The Circle of Knowledge - Semiotics and Its Object - Semiosis as a Cognitive Process - Essential Properties of Language - Cognitive Conception of the Sign.

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Author:   A. V Kravchenko
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780820460550

ISBN 10:   0820460559
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   13 February 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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