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1 online resource (xxviii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Explains the phenomena, theoretical debates, experiments and historical development of experimental pragmatics, which investigates how utterances communicate a speaker's intended meaning. |
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"How does a listener understand a sarcastic 'That was a wonderful speech' when the words point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret 'Some cabs are yellow' as 'Not all cabs are yellow' when the meaning of 'some' is compatible with 'all'? Pragmatics aims to explain how listeners draw out a speaker's meaning from utterances, an astonishing feat when one considers that the words in a sentence hardly suffice for fully comprehending what the speaker intended. Given the nature of pragmatics, it is going to take the interdisciplinary firepower of many cognitive sciences -- including philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics and neuroscience -- to fully appreciate this uniquely human ability."--Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pragmatics.
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pragmatics. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. |
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Pragmatics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Noveck, Ira A., 1962- Experimental pragmatics. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781107084902 (DLC) 2018011056 (OCoLC)1024238889 |
| ISBN |
9781108646932 (electronic bk.) |
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110864693X (electronic bk.) |
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9781316027073 |
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1316027074 |
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9781107446885 (paperback) |
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1107446880 |
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9781107084902 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1107084903 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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