Speech, Memory, and Meaning: Intertextuality in Everyday Language

Author/Contributor(s):	Gasparov, Boris
Publisher:	Walter de Gruyter
Date:	05/19/2010
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The book introduces the concept of intertextual memory into the domain of linguistic theory. All new facts of speech are grounded in the speakers' memory of previous experiences of using language. The new meaning is shown to be always superscribed on the familiar and recognizable, as its more or less radical alteration.