Fundamentals of language production and apperception

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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.