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Collocation as Instrumentation for Meaning: A Scientific Fact

Collocation as Instrumentation for Meaning: A Scientific Fact

Bill Louw
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781605669328|ISBN10: 1605669326|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923082|EISBN13: 9781605669335
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-932-8.ch004
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Louw, Bill. "Collocation as Instrumentation for Meaning: A Scientific Fact." Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies, edited by Willie van Peer, et al., IGI Global, 2010, pp. 79-101. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-932-8.ch004

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Louw, B. (2010). Collocation as Instrumentation for Meaning: A Scientific Fact. In W. Peer, S. Zyngier, & V. Viana (Eds.), Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies (pp. 79-101). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-932-8.ch004

Chicago

Louw, Bill. "Collocation as Instrumentation for Meaning: A Scientific Fact." In Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies, edited by Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier, and Vander Viana, 79-101. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-932-8.ch004

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Abstract

Until fairly recently, linguistics has been classified as a ‘science’ by definition, averral, and ideology rather than because of the uniformity of its practices across its many schools of thought. It is seldom the case in any discipline that a particular phenomenon begins to question that discipline’s raison d’etre, withdraw the option and luxury of its often directionless and eclectic practices and proceed to force unwelcome and sweeping changes upon the discipline by beginning to dictate its method. This paper re-states its author’s earlier proofs as claims that collocation as instrumentation for meaning is a scientific fact. The burden of this proof has acquired renewed urgency of an interdisciplinary nature that makes this paper both timely and necessary. The claim for collocation as science is reinforced by a number of new discoveries: the fact that all devices are brought about by relexicalisation as a marked form rather than the purported markedness that is mentalist and hence, merely averred. Collocation, corpus, stylistics, instrumentation, delexicalisation, relexicalisation, science, empiricism, philosophy of language, chunking, context of situation, context of culture, worlds, intuition, subtext, symbolism, co-selection.

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