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Author Linhares-Dias, Rui, 1955-

Title How to show things with words : a study on logic, language and literature / by Rui Linhares-Dias.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 544 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 155
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 155. 1861-4302
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-518) and indexes.
Contents Prolegomena -- The linguistic structure of narrative transmission -- Linguistics in narratology : a critical historical survey -- The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity -- The temporal-perspectival organization of discourse -- Tense -- Aspect -- Aktionsart -- The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission.
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Summary This book straddles the border between linguistics and philosophy to address, on a sound interdisciplinary basis, the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption. In languages with no grammaticalized evidential systems, the epistemological structure of discourse underlying perspectival oppositions is heavily dependent on the self-expression of language-using personae and must thereby be inferred from a well-defined set of surface markers. For that matter, the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, supported by the cognitive pro.
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Subject Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Linhares-Dias, Rui, 1955- How to show things with words. Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2006 (DLC) 2004021948 (OCoLC)56559480
ISBN 9783110899627 (electronic book)
3110899620 (electronic book)
3110179954 (alkaline paper)
9783110179958 (alkaline paper)