Using Language

Herbert H. Clark

ISBN 10: 0521567459 / ISBN 13: 9780521567459

Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 1996

About this Item

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, GB
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521567459
• ISBN 13: 9780521567459
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 5.98W x 1.12H x 9.02D inches 5.98 inches width by 1.12 inches height by 9.02 inches depth
• Weight: 738 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.

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.