Coping with an Idea of Ecological Grammar
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- ISBN 9783631602287
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 18 Feb 2010
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book summarizes scholarly achievements of the author by confronting two descriptive models of linguistic research. Against the background of a language-centered view dealing with its external conditionings in the life of nations and nationalities the author puts forward a human-centered conception of grammar which focuses on the ecosystem of communicating individuals who aggregate into interpersonal and intersubjective groupings for the realization of common tasks. Such a grammar manifests itself in linguistic-communicational properties of people through changeable practices of meaning-creation and stabilizing patterns of meaning-interpretation: firstly, when they create observable relationships while transmitting and receiving the meaning-bearers, and, secondly, when they contribute to the formation of assumable associations while coding and decoding the meanings to the approximately similar extent.
The Author: Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik is Associate Professor in the School of English at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznań (Poland), where she teaches on Old and Modern Frisian, Ecology of Germanic Languages, and conducts seminars in Human Linguistics. She obtained her primary education in German and Dutch (1981-1986), along with Ph.D. in general linguistics (1995), from the University of Wrocław. Subsequently, she completed her D.Litt. (habilitation) at the AMU in Poznań in 2008. As the author of two books and numerous articles on the conditionings of minority languages and ecological grammar of human linkages, she has marked her presence at international conferences in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, Belgium, Finland, and the United States.
