TY - BOOK ID - 85466261 TI - The crucible of language : how language and mind create meaning PY - 2015 SN - 1316403637 1316444104 1316447111 1107123917 1107561035 PB - Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Semantics KW - Cognitive grammar KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Language, Psychology of KW - Language and languages KW - Psychology of language KW - Speech KW - Linguistics KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Psychological aspects KW - Semantics. KW - Cognitive grammar. KW - Psycholinguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85466261 AB - From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another. How we use language - to convey ideas, make requests, ask a favour, and express anger, love or dismay - is of the utmost importance; indeed, linguistic meaning can be a matter of life and death. In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language; he shows how linguistic meaning arises, where it comes from, and the way language enables us to convey the meanings that can move us to tears, bore us to death, or make us dizzy with delight. Meaning is, he argues, one of the final frontiers in the mapping of the human mind. ER -