Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition
by M.A.K. Halliday
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages672 pages
ISBN
9780826488923
Published
1999
Description
The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts ...The subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thought of as knowledge, represented in the form of conceptual taxonomies, schemata, scripts and the like. The authors offer an interpretation that is complementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning; and hence as something that is construed in language.
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