Using Language

Using Language
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 0521567459
ISBN-13 : 9780521567459
Rating : 4/5 (459 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Using Language by : Herbert H. Clark

Download or read book Using Language written by Herbert H. Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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