Summary
Style is an important component of communication: it is the how in communicating the what, demonstrating the ontological unity of the two in language variability that provides the ground for the functioning of what-how and what-for. This volume approaches style within the framework of cognitive linguistics, a usage-based functional model, which interprets language as being conceptual, whereas conceptual knowledge is interpreted as experiential. Consequently, style is considered not as a set of predetermined ornaments on texts, but as a system of context-sensitive probability schemes of formation contributing to the meaning of discourse. Style is the outcome of linguistic potential, constrained by socio-cultural factors, functioning in the on-line and consolidated stylistic structure of discourse.
Details
- Pages
- 166
- Publication Year
- 2005
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631375518
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- socio-cultural factor text verbal interaction Ungarisch Sprachstil Kognitive Linguistik style cognitive linguistic
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2005. 166 pp., 7 fig., 23 tables
