Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition

by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, et al.

Book Overview

The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that is complementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning; and hence as something that is construed in language. In other words, the concern is with the construal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826488927
• ISBN13: 9780826488923
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.7"