Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech

Marklen E. Konurbaev is Professor of Philology in the department of English Linguistics at Moscow State University, Russia. His research specialises in the use of English in modern and historical speaking environments, including political and public discourse. His previous publications include The Style and Timbre of English Speech and Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive science in the beginning of the 21st century has brought us through various stages of natural human language analysis and comprehension - from deep structures, transformational grammar and behaviorism to cognitive linguistics, theory of encapsulation, and mentalism. Thus, drawing upon new developments in cognitive science, philosophy and hermeneutics, the author reveals how to obtain the real vision of life lurking behind the spoken word. 
Applying methodology introduced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Martin Heidegger, the author examines how we can see the 'living' and dynamic essence of speech hidden in the world of linear linguistic strings and casual utterances. This uniquely researched work will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of cognitive stylistics, pragmatics and the psychology of language.

Employs a linguistic perspective to answer to the reality of mental representations and materiality of human perception

Chapter 1: Preliminary methodological divagations in the circle of the philosophers.- Chapter 2: Prolegomena to the phenomenology of speech: definition of 'life'.- Chapter 3: The ontology of speech and the nature of foregrounding.- Chapter 4: Phenomenological modelling of speech and its perception.- Chapter 5: Pure generative phenomenology of speech.- Chapter 6: Organon of life as a phenomenon of speech.- Chapter 7: Neurophysiological roots of the phenomenon of life in speech.