
Language And Communicative Practices
William F. Hanks(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 2019
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-367-31993-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on major theories of language from several disciplines and aims to develop an approach to communicative practice that combines the formal properties of linguistic systems with the dynamics of speech as social activity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
661 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31993-9 (9780367319939)
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Content
Preface -- Introduction: Meaning and Matters of Context -- Language the System -- The Language of Saussure -- From Signs to Sentences -- North American Formalism and the Problem of Meaning -- Language the Nexus of Context -- Sentences, Speech Acts, and Utterances -- Three Phenomenologies of Language -- Saturation by Context -- Relativity, Reflexivity, and Difference -- Beyond the Speaker and the Text -- Communicative Practices -- Elements of Communicative Practice -- Communicative Practice in the Corporeal Field -- Meaning in History -- About the Book and Author