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Record Nr.

UNISA996248188303316

Autore

Clark Herbert H.

Titolo

Using language / / Herbert H. Clark [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1996

ISBN

0-511-99502-4

1-316-04014-3

0-511-62053-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 432 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-412) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Language use -- Foundations -- Joint activities -- Joint actions -- Common ground -- Communicative acts -- Meaning and understanding -- Signaling -- Levels of action -- Joint projects -- Grounding -- Utterances -- Discourse -- Joint commitment -- Conversation -- Layering -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index of names -- Subject index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, first published in 1996, 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. The author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.