The utility of meaning : (Record no. 2543)

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fixed length control field 210609s2015 enkab b 001 0 eng d
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LC control number 2014937978
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198709831
International Standard Book Number 0198709838
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System control number (OCoLC)902656285
Canceled/invalid control number (OCoLC)908404016
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Classification number PL4236
Item number .E54 2015
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Enfield, N. J.,
Dates associated with a name 1966-
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The utility of meaning :
Remainder of title what words mean and why /
Statement of responsibility, etc. N.J. Enfield.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 200 p. :
Other physical details ill., map.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Oxford linguistics
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Utility of meaning -- Meanings are layered -- Meanings are multiple -- Meanings are anthropocentric -- Meanings are cultural -- Meanings are distributed -- Meanings are useful.
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Summary, etc. This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been shaped directly by their history of 'utility' for communication in social life. N.J. Enfield draws on semantic and pragmatic case studies from his extensive fieldwork in Laos to investigate a range of semantic fields including emotion terms, culinary terms, landscape terminology, and honorific pronouns, among many others. These studies form the building blocks of a conceptual framework for understanding meaning in language. The book argues that the goals and relevancies of human communication are what bridge the gap between the private representation of language in the mind and its public processes of usage, acquisition, and conventionalization in society. Professor Enfield argues that in order to understand this process, we first need to understand the ways in which linguistic meaning is layered, multiple, anthropocentric, cultural, distributed, and above all, useful. This wide-ranging account brings together several key strands of research across disciplines including semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and sociology of language, and provides a rich account of what linguistic meaning is like and why.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Lao language
General subdivision Semantics.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Meaning (Psychology)
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Uniform title Oxford linguistics.
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