Using Language

Herbert H. Clark

ISBN 10: 0521561582 / ISBN 13: 9780521561587

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book, first published in 1996, argues 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. The author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Using Language
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521561582
• ISBN 13: 9780521561587
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 28D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 792 grams

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Synopsis

Herbert Clark argues 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 processes.

Book Description

In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which sees language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which sees it as a social process, this text argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.