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The logic of language : a semiotic study of speech / Michael Shapiro.

9783031066122 (electronic bk.)
303106612X (electronic bk.)
9783031066115
3031066111

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.

English

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10.1007/978-3-031-06612-2 doi

P39

401/.4

This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. The main impetus for writing this book derives from the fact that linguistics and semiotics are two fields of study that need to be brought together under one compass because language is what is known as the "passkey semiotic," i.e. the system of signs that underlies all other sign systems owing to its foundational status. Due to the current balkanization of linguistics as an academic discipline, the academic study of language structure rarely if ever incorporates the insights of semiotics and semioticians when presenting its material. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays barefor students, scholars and advanced readers alikethe lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign system par excellence, in the service of its most important function as the instrument of cognition and of communication. This book is intended as a companion volume to Shapiros The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage. The two volumes taken in tandem will provide a solid grounding in the observational science of linguistics, linking theory with practice in a way that will expand ones understanding of language as a global phenomenon. .

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