Context as other minds : the pragmatics of sociality, cognition, and communication /

"Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of releva...

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Main Author: Givón, Talmy, 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2005.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789027294340
9027294348
9781588115928
1588115925
9781588115935
1588115933
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Perspective
  • Categories as prototypes : the adaptive middle
  • Semantic networks and metaphoric language
  • Grammar and other minds : an evolutionary perspective
  • Referential coherence
  • Propositional modalities
  • Discourse coherence
  • Community as other minds : the pragmatics of organized science
  • The adaptive pragmatics of "self"
  • The pragmatics of the martial arts.