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The Linguistic Construction of Reality

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The Linguistic Construction of Reality book

The Linguistic Construction of Reality

DOI link for The Linguistic Construction of Reality

The Linguistic Construction of Reality book

ByGeorge W. Grace
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1987
eBook Published 5 August 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315522531
Pages 160 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315522531
SubjectsHumanities
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Grace, G. (1987). The Linguistic Construction of Reality. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315522531

This book, originally published in 1987, considers how the science of linguistics creates its own objects of study. It argues that language is the one essential tool in the ‘social construction of reality’ – the way in which our environment as we perceive and respond to it is actually created by the cultural constructs we bring to bear on it – and that it is also the means by which this reality, once constructed, is preserved and transmitted from person to person and from generation to generation. Hence it is entirely appropriate to refer to the linguistic construction of reality.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part I|22 pages

Views of Language

chapter 1|13 pages

The Mapping and Reality-construction Views of Language

chapter 2|7 pages

Subject-matter Views

part II|50 pages

Saying Things: Conceptual Events

chapter 3|16 pages

Saying Things

chapter 4|14 pages

Conceptual Events and Real-world Situations

chapter 5|18 pages

The Problem of Translation

part III|42 pages

Conceptual Worlds

chapter 6|17 pages

Conceptual Elements

chapter 7|16 pages

Ways of Talking about Things

chapter 8|7 pages

Conceptual Worlds

part IV|29 pages

Further Implications

chapter 9|8 pages

The Question of the Relation Between Language and Thought

chapter 10|14 pages

The Question of Individual Linguistic Competence

chapter |5 pages

Concluding Remarks

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