TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hubert Kowalewski
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2365-8150
SN  - 9783653064070
TI  - Motivating the Symbolic
T2  - Towards a Cognitive Theory of the Linguistic Sign
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06407-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050035
N2  - The book outlines a new approach to the study of motivation in language, which is firmly rooted in the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, but it is developed in critical (and constructive) dialogue with classical theories in semiotics: Ferdinand de Saussure’s structural linguistics and Charles S. Peirce’s model of the sign. The author’s proposal hinges upon the Peircean distinction between iconic, indexical, and symbolic signs, but the classical typology is reinterpreted within the framework of cognitive linguistics. The approach does not seek to "categorize" different linguistic expressions into one of the three Peircean types, but attempts to capture the dynamicity of meanings in terms of iconicity, indexicality, and conventionality. The book presents an analysis of selected vocabulary and morphosyntactic structures of English.
LA  - English
ER  -