LEADER 06387nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910815517803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15663-2 010 $a9786612156632 010 $a90-272-9434-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000534978 035 $a(OCoLC)85024968 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10084585 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129903 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12034865 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129903 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080484 035 $a(PQKB)10559341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622365 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000534978 100 $a20041026d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContext as other minds $ethe pragmatics of sociality, cognition, and communication /$fT. Givon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia, PA $cJohn Benjamins Pub.$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-58811-592-5 311 $a90-272-3226-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContext as Other Minds -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Perspective -- 1.1. The conundrum of context -- 1.2. Russell's paradox -- 1.3. Objectivism -- 1.4. Relativism -- 1.5. Other minds -- 1.6. Recurrent themes -- 1.7. Early roots -- 1.8. Modern strands -- Notes -- 2. Categories as prototypes -- 2.1. Preamble -- 2.2. Philosophical roots -- 2.3. Linguistic roots -- 2.4. Prototypes: The adaptive middle -- 2.5. The adaptive underpinnings of prototype-like categories -- 2.6. Some social consequences of natural categorization -- 2.7. The cultural context of social decision-making -- Notes -- 3. Semantic networks and metaphoric language -- 3.1. Culturally shared generic mental maps -- 3.2. General design of the human communication system -- 3.3. The generic lexicon as a network of nodes and connections -- 3.4. Metaphoric or non-literal meaning -- 3.5. Figurative language and semantic networks -- 3.6. Adaptive motivation and frequency distribution of figurative language -- 3.7. Final reflections -- Notes -- 4. Grammar and other minds -- 4.1. Sociality, communication and other minds -- 4.2. Mental models -- 4.3. Grammar -- 4.4. Grammar and other minds -- 4.5. The selectivity of mental models -- 4.6. Other minds in an evolutionary perspective -- Notes -- 5. Referential coherence -- 5.1. Coherence as mental operations -- 5.2. Coherence as grounding -- 5.3. Use frequency, markedness and cognitive status -- 5.4. Cognitive model -- 5.5. Discussion -- Notes -- 6. Propositional modalities -- 6.1. Propositions vs. speakers -- 6.2. Epistemic modalities -- 6.3. Tense -- 6.4. Aspect -- 6.5. Deontic sub-modes of irrealis -- 6.6. The pragmatics of NEG-assertions -- 6.7. Evidentiality -- 6.8. Knowledge and power: The interaction between epistemics and deontics -- 6.9. Summary: Propositional modalities and other minds -- Notes. 327 $a7. Discourse coherence and clause chaining -- 7.1. Reorientation -- 7.2. Clause chaining -- 7.3. Pre-initial clauses ('coherence bridges') -- 7.4. Chain-initial vs. chain-medial clauses -- 7.5. Clause-level vs. chain-level conjunction -- 7.6. Chain-medial cataphoric switch-reference (DS) devices -- 7.7. Recapitulation: clause chaining and other minds -- Notes -- 8. Community as other mind -- 8.1. The scientist vs. the organism -- 8.2. Reductionist extremes in the philosophy of science -- 8.3. The pragmatics of empirical science -- 8.4. Multiple loci of pragmatic inference in the empirical cycle -- 8.5. The social pragmatics of science: Community as other minds -- Notes -- 9. The adaptive pragmatics of 'self' -- 9.1. Preamble -- 9.2. The essentialist self -- 9.3. The multiple self -- 9.4. The impaired self -- 9.5. The complex self as an adaptive strategy -- Notes -- 10. The pragmatics of martial arts -- 10.1. Preamble -- 10.2. Adaptive realism: There shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth -- 10.3. The paradox of Karma -- 10.4. Tao and Wu-Wei -- 10.5. Wu-Wei as paradox -- 10.6. Wu-Wei as strategy -- 10.7. The paradox of the invisible leader -- 10.8. The yoga of form -- 10.9. The ritualization of form -- 10.10. Complexity: Seven paradoxes -- Notes -- References -- Index. 330 $aGivon'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 relevance, has been well known since Aristotle, Kant and Peirce. But the context that is relevant to the pragmatics of sociality and communication is a highly specific mental operation - the mental modeling of the interlocutor's current, rapidly shifting belief-and-intention states. The construed context of social interaction and communication is thus a mental representation of other minds. Following a condensed intellectual history of pragmatics, the book investigates the adaptive pragmatics of lexical-semantic categories - the 1st-order framing of "reality", what cognitive psychologists call "semantic memory". Utilizing the network model, the book then takes a fresh look at the adaptive underpinnings of metaphoric meaning. The core chapters of the book outline the re-interpretation of "communicative context" as the systematic, on-line construction of mental models of the interlocutor's current, rapidly-shifting states of belief and intention. This grand theme is elaborated through examples from the grammar of referential coherence, verbal modalities and clause-chaining. In its final chapters, the book pushes pragmatics beyond its traditional bounds, surveying its interdisciplinary implications for philosophy of science, theory of personality, personality disorders and the calculus of social interaction. 606 $aPragmatics 606 $aPragmatism 615 0$aPragmatics. 615 0$aPragmatism. 676 $a306.44 700 $aGivon$b Talmy$f1936-$0386338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815517803321 996 $aContext as other minds$91240038 997 $aUNINA