Using language
"Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which has seen it as a social process, the author argues strongly that language use embodies bot…
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- Full title :Using language / Herbert H. Clark.
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"Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which has seen it as a social process, the author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes."--Publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 432 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0521561582, 9780521561587, 0521567459, 9780521567459
- oclc:ocm33078546
- LC Classification:P106
- Dewey Decimal:400
Table of Contents
1. Language use -- 2. Joint activities -- 3. Joint actions -- 4. Common ground -- 5. Meaning and understanding -- 6. Signaling -- 7. Joint projects -- 8. Grounding -- 9. Utterances -- 10. Joint commitment -- 11. Conversation -- 12. Layering -- 13. Conclusion.
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