Reinventing structuralism
Subtitle: what sign relations reveal about consciousness
By: Rodney B. Sangster
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- v. 264; Trends in linguistics -- v. 264.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9783110303735; 9783110304978
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Semiotics and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the promise of modern-day structuralism; title: Seeking the correlates of meaning in language --; title: Sign relations as organic properties of mind --; title: Language as a self-organizing system --; title: Applying the sign principle to grammatical meaning --; title: Past/non-past : the cancellation feature --; title: Future/non-future : the objectiveness feature --; title: Perfective/imperfective : The dimensionality feature --; title: Plural/non-plural : the plurality feature --; title: Relations creating separation : the distinctness feature --; title: Relations defined on the present as a conceptual property : the extension feature --; title: Case relations as a product of grammatical selection --; title: The Russian accusative and instrumental --; title: The Russian genitive and genitive/accusative --; title: The Russian dative and subjectless sentences --; title: The system of Russian cases --; title: Extending the sign principle to syntax --; title: The modification relation in English : the extension feature --; title: The modification relation in Russian : the dimensionality feature --; title: The modification relation in French : the plurality feature --; title: The potential of sign theory in the domain of lexical meaning --; title: Preliminary concepts --; title: Verbal lexical systems --; title: Nominal lexical systems --; title: The feature hierarchy that defines human conceptual space --; title: The evidence from transpersonal psychology --; title: The evidence from the study of myth --; title: Neurological evidence for the evolution of higher-order consciousness --; title: The neurological structure of consciousness --; title: The evolution of the language faculty --; title: The sign relation and the origin of image-making --; title: The position of structuralism in the modern era --; title: Saussure's langue and parole --; title: Derrida's différance --; title: Lévi-strauss' contentless structure --; title: Lacan's symbolic order --; title: Bybee's usage-based grammar --; title: Jakobson's relative autonomy --; title: Epilogue : the wisdom of the primal mind ---- Bibliography-- Glossary-- Index.