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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub.,
2005.
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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.