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Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics, The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead's philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. , Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics
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  • Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics
  • Written by author Michael Fortescue
  • Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2001
  • The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead's philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern.
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Ch. 1 Why Whitehead? 1
1.1 Breaching the divide in linguistics today 2
1.2 A cognitive interpretation of Whitehead's 'philosophy of organism' 5
1.3 Complementarity 21
Ch. 2 A Whiteheadian approach to natural dialogue 25
2.1 Speech acts and intentions in a world in process 26
2.2 Twenty Questions revisited 32
2.3 Inference as suspended judgment 45
Ch. 3 The language system: Language as systematized expression 53
3.1 The nature and deployment of the linguistic sign 53
3.2 Embodied rules 63
Ch. 4 The content side of language 81
4.1 Propositions and presuppositions 81
4.2 Categories, prototypes and metaphor 89
4.3 The roots of meaning 96
Ch. 5 Language processing and the mind/brain 107
5.1 Cognitive assumptions 108
5.2 Language without representation 117
5.3 Modularity versus intentional states 124
5.4 The mind/brain as the organ of novelty 129
Ch. 6 Understanding written texts: Imaginary worlds 139
6.1 Information unit and topics 139
6.2 The coherence of prose 142
6.3 Referential cohesion and figurative language 157
6.4 The poetry of incoherence 162
Ch. 7 The historical transmission of language 171
7.1 Language acquisition 172
7.2 Language change 186
Ch. 8 Language as organism or eternal object 199
8.1 Typology and teleology 199
8.2 Language as social object 207
8.3 The evolution of language 211
Ch. 9 Whitehead and linguistic metatheory 227
App. 1 Whitehead's position within modern philosophy 245
App. 2 The concrescence of an English utterance 251
Notes 255
References 299
Index 307


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