Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained
We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation--such as "Explain me this" or "She considered to go"--doesn't sound quite right. In this incisive book, Adele Goldberg explores how these creative but constrained language skills emerge from a combination of general cognitive mechanisms and experience.
Shedding critical light on an enduring linguistic paradox, Goldberg demonstrates how words and abstract constructions are generalized and constrained in the same ways. When learning language, we record partially abstracted tokens of language within the high-dimensional conceptual space that is used when we speak or listen. Our implicit knowledge of language includes dimensions related to form, function, and social context. At the same time, abstract memory traces of linguistic usage-events cluster together on a subset of dimensions, with overlapping aspects strengthened via repetition. In this way, dynamic categories that correspond to words and abstract constructions emerge from partially overlapping memory traces, and as a result, distinct words and constructions compete with one another each time we select them to express our intended messages.
While much of the research on this puzzle has favored semantic or functional explanations over statistical ones, Goldberg's approach stresses that both the functional and statistical aspects of constructions emerge from the same learning mechanisms.
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained
We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation--such as "Explain me this" or "She considered to go"--doesn't sound quite right. In this incisive book, Adele Goldberg explores how these creative but constrained language skills emerge from a combination of general cognitive mechanisms and experience.
Shedding critical light on an enduring linguistic paradox, Goldberg demonstrates how words and abstract constructions are generalized and constrained in the same ways. When learning language, we record partially abstracted tokens of language within the high-dimensional conceptual space that is used when we speak or listen. Our implicit knowledge of language includes dimensions related to form, function, and social context. At the same time, abstract memory traces of linguistic usage-events cluster together on a subset of dimensions, with overlapping aspects strengthened via repetition. In this way, dynamic categories that correspond to words and abstract constructions emerge from partially overlapping memory traces, and as a result, distinct words and constructions compete with one another each time we select them to express our intended messages.
While much of the research on this puzzle has favored semantic or functional explanations over statistical ones, Goldberg's approach stresses that both the functional and statistical aspects of constructions emerge from the same learning mechanisms.
Автор: Bhatia, Aditi Название: Discursive illusions in public discourse ISBN: 1138022691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138022690 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 15730 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book employs a qualitative approach, drawing on both written and spoken discourses, including policy documents, political speeches, press conferences, blog entries, and corporate reports, and puts forward a unique theoretical framework of Discourse of Illusion.
Описание: This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions.
Описание: In the study of European politics and society, importance is attached to the role of ideational factors. This book discusses the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyses how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.
Автор: R. Mole Название: Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics ISBN: 1349354880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349354887 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8983 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.
Автор: Butler Название: The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions ISBN: 1403921121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403921123 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13176 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of a split construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects.
Автор: Mattu Gurdeep Название: Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Disco ISBN: 1350029203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350029200 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15840 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a study into how the public discourse on migrant integration in the UK changed from 2000-2010. The book shows that the discursive construction of integration in the British public sphere shifted from one of cultural pluralism to one of neo-assimilation, informed by a wider spread of neo-liberalism that necessitates self-sufficiency and discourages state assistance. Situated within the Critical Discourse Studies tradition, the book employs a Discourse Historical approach to the data and includes innovative analysis combining ‘top-down’ (policy documents and media texts) and ‘bottom-up’ (focus groups with migrants and new citizens) sites of discourse production. In doing so, it provides a broad and detailed perspective of public discourse on integration in the UK. The book shows that understandings of ‘integration’ are diachronically and synchronically fluid and as such, the term plays an important role as a ‘consensus concept’ that different actors can support whilst construing it in different ways. Analysis of the data further reveals that integration is interdiscursively linked to other social fields, such as the economy, terrorism and public spending. The book also argues that integration policy has become directed not just at new migrants, but also long-term British citizens and that this has the potential to have considerable impact on community cohesion.
Описание: West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this highly nuanced study of West Greenlandic, linguist Anna Berge examines how the speaker`s role affects syntactic structures within discourse. Also included are transcripts of conversations with fluent Native speakers.
Описание: This edited volume demonstrates some of the potential contributions of discourse analytic approaches to the study of education policy and its implementation within particular policy contexts.
Описание: In this first ever discourse analysis of advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides written by lawyers for lawyers.
Автор: Parker Название: Critical Discursive Psychology ISBN: 1137485590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137485595 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10780 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book introduces key issues and historical contexts in critical discursive research in psychology. It sets out methodological steps for critical readings of texts, arguments that can be made for qualitative research in academic settings, and arguments that could be made against it by critical psychologists.
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