The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction: 55 (Human Cognitive Processing) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027246718 ISBN 13: 9789027246714

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2016

Synopsis

This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction, that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself), discourse (monologues organized as dialogues), and grammar (“why me? attitude”). This follows prior work on the subject by Esther Pascual and other authors, most of whom are also contributors to this volume. The 17 chapters in the volume explore fictive interaction as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon, as a ubiquitous discourse-structuring device, as a possibly universal linguistic construction, and as an effective communicative strategy in persuasion and language pathology. The data discussed involve a wide variety of unrelated languages (spoken and signed) and modes of communication (oral, written, visual), across cultural contexts and historical time.
The research presented combines linguistics and cognitive science, while bridging the gap between core grammatical studies and modern conversation and discourse analysis. The volume further reaches across what may be the most basic divide in linguistics: that between descriptive, theoretical, and applied linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027246718
• ISBN 13: 9789027246714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Pascual Esther, Sandler Sergeiy