Göran Hammarström Bücher

Linguistic accounts typically focus on language as a system and texts as produced entities. The author aims to enhance this traditional view by organizing language details and their interrelations into five levels, α - ε. This comprehensive framework is employed to describe the five links in the speech and writing chains, offering a more nuanced understanding of language users' activities. Key questions addressed include how speakers construct utterances, how hearers comprehend them, how writers create texts, and how readers interpret them. The necessary perspectives for this exploration include evaluation, assumption, accommodation, initiation, and elaboration. The text delves into how language is stored in the brain and utilized during production and apperception. The author posits that future research should also consider information amount and redundancy alongside production and apperception. Various models of the speech chain and types of sentence meaning are examined, with a critical discussion on pragmatics. New insights into sentence construction from ambiguous concepts through elaboration inspire the inclusion of fresh perspectives on the evolution of human language. The interplay of an advanced brain and dexterous hands is emphasized as crucial for language creation. ISBN 9783862887118. Linguistics Edition 108. 78pp. 2016.

This book sums up and further develops ideas of the author's books Linguistische Einheiten im Rahmen der modernen Sprachwissenschaft (Berlin 1966), Linguistic units and items (Berlin 1976) and Linguistic units and items II (Frankfurt am Main 1995). The terminological system generally accepted for phoneme-allophone-phone and morpheme-allomorph-morph is developed so as to include all fundamental facts of language in a five-level description. The levels are ? with phonemes, prosodemes, syllabemes etc.; ? with contouremes and stylemes; ? with idiolemes, sociolemes and dialemes; ? with proxemes and kinemes; ? with text aspects. In a detailed or "narrow" description an item (variant or realisation) from one level is conditioned by items from all the other levels. Both spoken and written language, and the relationship between them, should be included in a complete description. The synchronic description of a language is fundamentally taxonomic. In recent years many "explanations", complex "models" and "theories" have been suggested which in the opinion of the author are mostly not adequate because they do not directly describe the language known and used by the speakers and writers.