The Semiotics of Culture and Language : Volume 1 : Language As Social Semiotic.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Introduction -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Part I: Language as social semiotic -- 1 Language as code and language as behaviour: a systemic-functional interpretation of the nature and ontogenesis of dialogue -- 1.1 Code and behaviour -- 1.2 Context, prediction, and choice -- 1.3 A model of dialogue -- 1.4 Some examples of dialogue between parent and child -- 1.5 The origins of dialogue -- 1.6 Conclusion -- NOTE -- Bibliography -- 2 Metaphors of information -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Structures of discourse -- 2.3 Discussion -- 3 How universal is a localist hypothesis? A linguistic contribution to the study of 'semantic styles' of language -- 3.1 The localist thesis in the history of linguistics -- 3.2 A verb-centred reformulation of the thesis -- 3.3 Surface cues to common underlying patterns -- 3.4 Formalization of underlying structural patterns -- 3.5 Contrastive realization in English and Japanese -- 3.6 Focus on vs. suppression of agentivity -- 3.7 Testimonies referring to the same type of contrast -- 3.8 Towards a psycholinguistic explanation -- 3.9 A possible 'locus'/'condition' neutralization -- 3.10 Concluding remarks -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- 4 Some speculations on language contact in a wider setting -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 General language-culture contact -- 4.2.1 Language contact as a whole and language functions -- 4.2.2 Culture contact in general -- 4.2.3 Language contact as a whole and culture contact -- 4.3 Bilingualism -- 4.3.1 Bilingualism and social setting -- 4.3.2 Bilingualism and culture contact -- 4.3.3 Bilingualism and register networks, semiotic methodology -- 4.4 Becker-type Sprachbunde -- 4.4.1 ISprachbund (Becker) and social setting -- 4.4.2 Sprachbund (Becker) and culture contact -- semiotic methodology.

4.4.3 Sprachbund (Becker) and linguistic relativity -- 4.5 Balkan-type Sprachbunde -- 4.5.1 Sprachbund (pre-Becker) and language functions -- 4.5.2 Sprachbund (pre-Becker) and culture contact -- 4.5.3 Sprachbund (pre-Becker) and linguistic relativity -- 4.5.4 Sprachbund (pre-Becker) and interlanguage etc. -- 4.6 Pidgins and Creoles -- 4.6.1 Pidgins and Creoles and Sprachbiinde -- 4.6.2 Pidgins and Creoles and language functions -- 4.6.3 Pidgins and Creoles and linguistic relativity -- 4.6.4 Pidgins and Creoles and register networks -- 4.7 Conclusion -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- 5 Ways of saying: ways of meaning -- 5.1 Culture and semiotic styles -- 5.1.1 Introductory remarks -- 5.1.2 Semiotic and semantic styles -- 5.1.3 Culture consonance and culture conflict -- 5.1.4 Semantic distance -- 5.2 Implicit and explicit styles -- 5.2.1 Implicit and explicit ways of saying -- 5.2.2 Implicit devices -- 5.2.3 The interpretation of implicit devices: endophora -- 5.2.4 The interpretation of implicit devices: exophora -- 5.3 Endophoric and exophoric interpretation -- 5.3.1 Endophoric interpretation and implicit style -- 5.3.2 Exophoric interpretation and implicit style -- 5.3.3 Instantial exophorics -- 5.3.4 Intermediate exophoric -- 5.3.5 Restricted exophoric -- 5.3.6 Formal exophoric -- 5.4 Degrees of implicitness -- 5.4.1 Encoding devices and degrees of implicitness -- 5.4.2 Inherent grading of implicit devices -- 5.4.3 Inherent grading of explicit devices -- 5.4.4 On establishing degrees of implicitness -- 5.5 English semantic style -- 5.5.1 The semantic style of English -- 5.5.2 Degrees of permissible implicitness in English -- 5.5.3 Environments for the operation of implicit styles -- 5.5.4 Concluding remarks on English semantic styles -- 5.6 Urdu semantic style -- 5.6.1 Implicitness in Urdu -- 5.6.2 S-ellipsis in Urdu.

5.6.3 Formal exophoric S-ellipsis in Urdu -- 5.6.4 Restricted exophoric ellipsis in Urdu -- 5.6.5 Complement ellipsis in Urdu -- 5.6.6 The semantic style of Urdu -- 5.7 Language and social systems -- 5.7.1 Social factors in the interpretation of implicit styles -- 5.7.2 Role systems and their non-verbal manifestations -- 5.7.3 Social structure and language system -- 5.7.4 Implicit style in English speaking community -- 5.7.5 Conclusions -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index.

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