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Meaning, discourse and society /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Meaning, discourse and society // Wolfgang Teubert.
remainder title:	Meaning, Discourse & Society
Author:	Teubert, Wolfgang,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Meaning (Psychology) -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770852
ISBN:	9780511770852 (ebook)

Meaning, discourse and society /
Teubert, Wolfgang,

Meaning, discourse and society /Meaning, Discourse & SocietyWolfgang Teubert. - 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction -- Part I. Meaning, the Mind and the Brain -- 1. The cognitive turn -- 2. The long history of mind linguistics -- 3. What do we know about mental concepts? -- 4. Morphing theoretical se;mes into 'real' concepts -- 5. From mental representations to conceptual ontologies -- 6. What is meaning? -- 7. Where should we look for meaning? -- Part II. Discourse and Society -- 8. Language as discourse -- 9. Society presupposes language, and language presupposes society -- 10. A closer look at oral societies -- 11. Differences between oral and literate societies -- 12. Empirical linguistics deals only with recorded language -- 13. Meaning, knowledge and the construction of reality -- 14. The language of the scientific experimental report -- 15. Diachronicity, intertextuality and hermeneutics -- 16. Meaning and the interpretation of a haiku; Conclusion.

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction, thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon. Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds, enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.

ISBN: 9780511770852 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

555655
Meaning (Psychology)

LC Class. No.: BF463.M4 / T48 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 401

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