Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language Based Approach To Cognition

By (author): "Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, M.A.K. Halliday"

Genres:Linguistics books Textbooks books Brain books

Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language Based Approach To Cognition

ISBN0304704903

ISBN139780304704903

AsinConstruing Experience Through Meaning: A Language Based Approach To Cognition

Original titleConstruing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-based Approach to Cognition (Open Linguistics)

This text explores how human beings construe experience. This means experience as a resource, as a potential for understanding, representing and acting on reality. It is in terms of this potential that the particulars of daily life are interpreted: they make sense because they are instantiations of this potential.