Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice The Theory and Applications of Molecular Sememics /

This volume presents eight papers and a draft monograph by T. Price Caldwell on topics in linguistics, semiotics and philosophy of language. From the beginning of his professional career onwards, Caldwell wrote short fiction and poetry, and he taught English literature. The relevance to these of phi...

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Main Author: Price Caldwell, T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 101
Subjects:
Semantics.
Language and languages-Philosophy.
Pragmatics.
Semiotics.
ISBN:9783319754413
ISSN:0924-4662 ;
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword by Peter Shillingsburg
  • Introduction by Robert J. Stainton
  • I. THE THEORY
  • The Epistemologies of Linguistic Science: Reassessing Structuralism, Redefining the Sememe (2006)
  • Molecular Sememics: Toward a Model of Ordinary Language (1989)
  • Whorf, Orwell, and Mentalese (The Molecular Sememe: Some Implications for Semantics) (2004)
  • The Coerciveness of Discourse (2007).-Molecular Sememics (Unfinished Book Manuscript)
  • Section One: The Molecular Sememe
  • Section Two: History and Method
  • Section Three: Tactics and Assumptions
  • Section Four: Qualities of the Sememe
  • Section Five: Teleological Structures
  • II. THE APPLICATIONS
  • Molecular Sememe: A Model for Literary Interpretation (2000)
  • The Rhetoric of Plain Fact - Stevens' "No Possom, No Sop, No Taters" (1995)
  • American Shoot-Out: Hemingway vs. Richard Ford (2001)
  • What I have Learned about English from Being in Japan
  • (Or: Why can't Japanese Students of English manage "a", "an" and "the"?) (2010).

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