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Grammar West to East: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions

Grammar West to East: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions

McDonald, Edward

Hardcover

Series: M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics

PhilosophyGrammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 981137595X
ISBN13: 9789811375958
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 6 2019
Pages: 275
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Acknowledgments.- Briefing Key issues and organisational features of this book.- Prelude Framing the problem of language and meaning.- Part I Traditions of language study: Graeco-Roman vis-à-vis Sinitic.- Chapter 1 Language, writing and metaphors for language.- Snapshot 1 Dialectic; Analogy v. anomaly.- Chapter 2 Language in education and the foundations of linguistic scholarship.- Snapshot 2 Ordering of words; Language as manifestation of the way.- Chapter 3 The discovery of language history.- Snapshot 3 Characters and order of universe; Grammatical form as expression of mind.- Chapter 4 From philology to linguistics.- Interlude Establishing a modern paradigm.- Part II The making of modern grammatics: developing tools for the analysis of wording.- Chapter 5 From (single) articulation to double articulation meaning ↔ wording ↔ sound.- Chapter 6 Parts of speech and word classes defining basic categories for grammatical analysis.- Chapter 7 Word grammar and clause grammar separating morphological from syntactic patterning.- Chapter 8 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations: structure and system.- Postlude The long 20th century of linguistics.- Debriefing The history of linguistics and the study of language.- References.

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