Language Arts & Disciplines Grammar & Punctuation
Language in the Mind
An Introduction to Guillaume's Theory
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2007
- Category
- Grammar & Punctuation
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773532632
- Publish Date
- Aug 2007
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773577862
- Publish Date
- Aug 2007
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Guillaume sees the word as the link between language as potential and as actual discourse. Meaning is both the representation of the speaker's momentary experience and the determining factor in the the word's use in discourse. Walter Hirtle illustrates Guillaume's general principles with examples drawn from contemporary English grammar and uses comparisons with other approaches, especially cognitive linguistics, to situate Guillaume’s distinctive view of language as essentially a mental phenomenon.
About the author
Walter Hirtle is professeur associé at l’Université Laval, Quebec City, and the author of several books, including Lessons on the English Verb: No Expression without Representation and Language in the Mind: An Introduction to Guillaume's Theory.