Semiotics and linguistics

著者

• Tobin, Y.

書誌事項

Semiotics and linguistics

Yishai Tobin

（Longman linguistics library）

Longman, 1990

• : pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. [253]-276

Includes indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book will try to show the connection between semiotics and liguistics as sign-oriented disciplines, in what may perhaps have been the direction originally envisioned by the Saussurian Sign Revolution. It begins with a bit of history and theory (and perhaps a bit of the theory of history) and then proceeds to present some sign-oriented analyses for various grammatical and lexical problems such as the dual number, the differences between "if" versus "whether", "also" versus "too" and the alternative synthetic and periphrastic strategies of comparatives and superlative formation in modern English. In the course of these analyses the reader will see what signs are and how they function within systems, contexts and texts. The connection between semiotics and linguistics will become clearer as the authors trace two converse complementary semiotic processes: going from "sign to text" and then from "text to sign". Semiotically and linguistically speaking, the authors view the "sign as text" as well as "text as sign".

目次

• Part 1 In search of the sign - an historical overview: the Saussurian background - linguistics and semiotics as separate disciplines, the historical connection between linguistics and semiotics, the sign-oriented approach
• sign versus sentence - "semiology" versus "semiotics", linguistics as part of semiotics, a search for a sign-oriented method, defining linguistic semiotically, defining the linguistic sign. Part 2 Invariance - an overview: invariance and language synergy - defining language semiotically, defining language synergetically, meaning versus message, meaning versus message and function, language synergy from the sign-oriented approach, the synergetic relationship between encoders and decoders, the synergetic relationship between signals and meanings, the synergetic relationship between lexicon and grammar
• invariant meaning - variations on an invariant theme - sign versus sentence-oriented definitions of language, invariance in linguistic theory reviewed, invariance in Jakobsonian theory, invariance in Guillaumean theory, invariance in Diverian theory, the concept of grammatical number, postulating invariant meanings for the dual number, the Jacobsonian approach, the Guillaumean approach, the Diverian approach. Part 3 From sign to system - markedness and distinctive feature theory: the dual number - to the sign to system - the dual number - grammar or lexicon?, number systems across languages, the dual number in modern Hebrew, the distribution of the dual in the lexicon, the dual number and the communication factor, the dual number and the human factor, the interaction of the human and communication factors, the plural versus the dual in spoken and written discourse, the creative use of the dual in a literary text
• "If" versus "Whether" - duality revised - the non-synonymy hypothesis, the analysis - invariance and markedness, the data. Part 4 From sign to text: sign - system - context - text
• working our way up
• "Also" versus "Too" - the sign as a text - the problem, the analysis - invariance and markedness, the data - "Alice in wonderland", the data - "Looking for Mr Goodbar, discussion and conclusion, the non-synonymy hypothesis, the non-homonymy hypothesis, word order and iconicity, other non-traditional approaches to the problem. Part 5 From text to sign: text - context - system - sign
• working our way down
• the English comparative system - the text as sign - presenting the problem semiotically, traditional analyses of the problem, the data, the micro-level analysis, the macro-level analysis, "Curiouser and Curiouser" (Alice in the Wonderland), "Darlingest" (social disease), "Worse-worser-worst" (summer whine), the distribution of the forms.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA11237253
• ISBN:
  • 0582063795
  • 0582016703
• LCCN: 89013490
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 289 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : P99
  • DC20 : 401/.41
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Semiotics
  • LCSH : Linguistics
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00267274