Using Language

Herbert H. Clark

ISBN 10: 0521567459 / ISBN 13: 9780521567459

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Herbert Clark argues here that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which has seen it as a social process, the author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social process. Seller Inventory # 9780521567459

Bibliographic Details

Title: Using Language

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Taschenbuch

Condition: Neu

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Synopsis:

This book argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening.

From the Back Cover:

In this, his major work to date, Herbert Clark sets out the thesis that language use is really a form of joint action. A joint action is one thing that is carried out by an ensemble of people acting in coordination with each other.