the pragmatics of sociality, cognition, and communication /
First Statement of Responsibility
T. Givón.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia, PA :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
John Benjamins Pub.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xv, 283 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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 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 communications is thus a mental representation of other minds."--Jacket.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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Title
Context as other minds.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Pragmatics.
Pragmatism.
Pragmatique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Sociolinguistics.