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Discourse, Consciousness and Time
Wallace Chafe
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Description for Discourse, Consciousness and Time
Paperback. This text demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an understanding of the way the mind works. Chafe shows that comprehending the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns and clause structure. Num Pages: 392 pages, 17 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFD; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
In this text, the author demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech, as well as written fiction and non-fiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present ... Read more
In this text, the author demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech, as well as written fiction and non-fiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226100548
SKU
V9780226100548
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