| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 198 pages). |
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text file |
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Studies in pragmatics ; volume 15
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Studies in pragmatics ; 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Working Definition of Discourse Markers; 1.2 Research Background; 1.3 The Structure of Instructions as Construed by AT: What It Entails for the Way in which DMs Constrain Interpretation; 1.4 The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction; 1.5 The Variability of Minds and Its Relevance to this Project; 1.6 Arguments in Support of the View that an Adaptive Perspective Can Provide the Basis for an Integrated Account of DMs; 1.7 Key Points; 1.8 Organization of the Book; Chapter 2 Investigating DMs from an Adaptive Perspective. |
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2.1 Darwin's Theory of Evolution2.2 Alternative Theories of Evolution; 2.3 Issues in Darwinian Evolutionary Biology; 2.4 The Evolutionist's Task; 2.5 Theoretical Significance of Darwin's Evolutionary Biology; 2.6 Functional Explanations; 2.7 Identifying Potential Adaptations; 2.8 Identifying Potential Co-options; 2.9 Viewing Language as a Biological Phenomenon; 2.10 How Does One Investigate Language as a Biological Phenomenon?; 2.11 Understanding DMs from an Adaptive Perspective; 2.12 Research Questions; 2.13 Mapping Research Questions onto the Investigation Process; 2.14 Summary. |
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2.15 Criteria Arising from a Darwinian PerspectiveChapter 3 Identifying Adaptive Pressures; 3.1 Identifying Adaptive Pressures in Argumentative Situations at the Personal Level; 3.2 Identifying a Suitable Lower-level Functional Analogue for the Argumentative Process; 3.3 Damasio's Decision-making Apparatus; 3.4 Adaptive Pressures; 3.5 Summary; 3.6 Closing Remark: Level of Correlation between Theoretical Entities and Its Significance; Chapter 4 Identifying Pre-existing Solutions (Part 1): The Interpretive Problem. |
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4.1 The Interpretive Problem: From Representational to Categorical Interpretation4.2 Divergent Thinking; 4.3 Arguments in Support of the Co-option of Divergent Thinking; 4.4 Applying these Criteria to the Situation under Consideration; 4.5 Interpretive Shortcut Arising from Divergent Thinking; 4.6 Amenability to Testing; 4.7 Summary; Chapter 5 Identifying Pre-existing Solutions (Part 2): The Exclusion Problem; 5.1 Attention and Selection-for-action; 5.2 Attention and Selection-for-action and Complex Categories; 5.3 Summary. |
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Chapter 6 Identifying Pre-existing Solution (Part 3): The Interference Problem and the InitialSituation Construction Problem6.1 The CI Model of Text Comprehension; 6.2 Extending the CI Integrative Strategy to the Interference Problem (P3); 6.3 Proposal: An Overview; 6.4 Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (TNGS); 6.5 Proposal (Continued); 6.6 The Initial Situation Construction Problem (P4); 6.7 Conclusion; Chapter 7 DMs' Capacity to Influence Interpretation; 7.1 Preliminary Considerations; 7.2 How Does the Brain Process Language?; 7.3 Damasio's Conception of Memory Encoding. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Context (Linguistics)
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Context (Linguistics) |
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Discourse markers.
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Discourse markers. |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Speech acts (Linguistics) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nyan, T. (Thanh), 1950- Context construction as mediated by discourse markers. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, [2016] 9789004273825 (DLC) 2016029419 |
| ISBN |
9789004273818 (electronic book) |
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9004273816 (electronic book) |
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9789004273825 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9004273824 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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