By integrating ideas of Peirce, Buhler, Bakhtin, Piaget and Jakobson, in this book the author defines three linguistic supertypes each operating with either the situation in reality, the speaker's experience of it or his condensed information to the hearer. The theory is built step by step on the ba[...]

This book provides a multi-disciplinary discussion of the concept of mentality, its relevance, and its interconnection with culture, past and present, on the one hand, and cognition and mental frames on the other. Organised into four parts, the book offers insights gained from applying particular pe[...]