The Semiotics of Culture and Language Volume 1 Language as Social Semiotic 1st Edition by Robin Fawcett, Halliday, Sydney Lamb, Adam Makkai 9781474285735 1474285732

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ISBN 10: 1474285732

ISBN 13: 9781474285735

Author: Robin P. Fawcett, M. A. K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb, Adam Makkai

Semiotics – the study of the general principles of signs and sign systems – is crucial to an understanding of human nature, both social and psychological. The sign systems that we use for interaction with other living beings determine our potential for thought and social action, and language is central among them. It is the implicit claim of this two-volume work that linguistics has something very specific to give to semiotics, and many would further claim that relational network models of language in particular, i.e. systematic and stratificational linguistics, have a fundamental contribution to make.

Table of contents:

1. Language as code and language as behaviour: a systemic-functional interpretation of the nature and functions of language

2. Metaphors of information

3. How universal is a localist hypothesis? A linguistic contribution to the study of “semantic styles”

4. Some speculations on language contact in a wider setting

5. Ways of saying: ways of meaning

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