5 Imposing structure on language-in-use: From language philosophy to discourse analysis
In the preceding chapter, it was shown that language does not only follow immanent rules of grammar, syntax, and phonetics, but that spoken language is always embodied and situated. It is not very difficult to learn the system of a second language, because it is finite. It is much more difficult to learn conceptual units and structures inherent in language use that have historically evolved in a speech community and in a socioculture; this is particularly true for conceptual metaphors and frames which are used to construct conceptual spaces and their blends. It is even more difficult to learn the appropriate social, cultural, pragmatic, and discursive use ...
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