Chapter Language as the user’s manual
The author proposes that language be considered in terms of the user’s manual – both as a description of the instrument and as a set of instructions concerning its actual use. Assuming that the main function of man-created language is the description of man’s world, the argument follows the cognitiv...
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| description | The author proposes that language be considered in terms of the user’s manual – both as a description of the instrument and as a set of instructions concerning its actual use. Assuming that the main function of man-created language is the description of man’s world, the argument follows the cognitive theory of language, stating that information processing which underlies language is embodied, embedded and enacted, and the fundamental property of language is its metonymic character. “The user’s manual of language” builds upon background knowledge, which enables proper completion of metonimies, which conditions understanding of messages. Discussing criteria used to differentiate between “literary” and “nonliterary” language within the proposed framework, the author analyses a number od examples to support the statement that cognition – also cognition via language – is embodied, embedded and enacted, an thus it crucially involves man’s interaction with the environment, as well as human affects and emotions. It cannot be objective, and the difference between “common language” and ”literary/poetic language” being quantitative rather than qualitative, it is a matter of degree. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1561412025-03-07T14:59:08Z Chapter Language as the user’s manual Tabakowska, Elżbieta communication communicational grammar Grażyna Habrajska The author proposes that language be considered in terms of the user’s manual – both as a description of the instrument and as a set of instructions concerning its actual use. Assuming that the main function of man-created language is the description of man’s world, the argument follows the cognitive theory of language, stating that information processing which underlies language is embodied, embedded and enacted, and the fundamental property of language is its metonymic character. “The user’s manual of language” builds upon background knowledge, which enables proper completion of metonimies, which conditions understanding of messages. Discussing criteria used to differentiate between “literary” and “nonliterary” language within the proposed framework, the author analyses a number od examples to support the statement that cognition – also cognition via language – is embodied, embedded and enacted, an thus it crucially involves man’s interaction with the environment, as well as human affects and emotions. It cannot be objective, and the difference between “common language” and ”literary/poetic language” being quantitative rather than qualitative, it is a matter of degree. 2025-03-07T14:59:07Z 2025-03-07T14:59:07Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788383311821_1791 9788383311821 9788383311814 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/156141 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/241 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8331-181-4.17 The author proposes that language be considered in terms of the user’s manual – both as a description of the instrument and as a set of instructions concerning its actual use. Assuming that the main function of man-created language is the description of man’s world, the argument follows the cognitive theory of language, stating that information processing which underlies language is embodied, embedded and enacted, and the fundamental property of language is its metonymic character. “The user’s manual of language” builds upon background knowledge, which enables proper completion of metonimies, which conditions understanding of messages. Discussing criteria used to differentiate between “literary” and “nonliterary” language within the proposed framework, the author analyses a number od examples to support the statement that cognition – also cognition via language – is embodied, embedded and enacted, an thus it crucially involves man’s interaction with the environment, as well as human affects and emotions. It cannot be objective, and the difference between “common language” and ”literary/poetic language” being quantitative rather than qualitative, it is a matter of degree. 10.18778/8331-181-4.17 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788383311821 9788383311814 249-259 open access |
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