Speech, memory, and meaning
Subtitle: intertextuality in everyday language
By: by Boris Gasparov.
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 214
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9783110219104
Subjects: Competence and performance (Linguistics); Communicative competence; Speech acts (Linguistics); Memory; Intertextuality
Description: "The series provides a comprehensive forum for publications in linguistics covering the entire range of language, including its variation and variability in space and time, its acquisition, theories on the nature of human language in general, and descriptions of individual languages. The series welcomes publications addressing the state of the art of linguistics as a whole or of specific subfields, and publications that offer challenging new approaches to linguistics." "The book introduces the concept of intertextual memory into the domain of linguistic theory. All new facts of speech are grounded in the speakers' memory of previous experiences of using language. The new meaning is shown to be always superscribed on the familiar and recognizable, as its more or less radical alteration."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction. Intertextuality, dialogism, and memory: the fabric of linguistic creativity; title: Part I. the vocabulary: 2. A coat of many colors: speech as intertextual collage; title: 3. The principal unit of speech vocabulary: the communicative fragment (CF); title: 4. Integral meaning; title: Part II. From the vocabulary to utterances: 5. The axis of selection: from the familiar to the new; title: 6. The axis of contiguity: shaping an utterance; title: 7. Categorization; title: 8. Conclusion. the joy of speaking: creativity as the fundamental condition of language; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.