| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 198 pages) |
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Studies in pragmatics ; volume 15 |
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Studies in pragmatics ; 15
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Working Definition of Discourse Markers; 1.2 Research Background; 1.3 The Structure of Instructions as Construed by AT: What It Entails for the Way in which DMs Constrain Interpretation; 1.4 The Personal/Sub-personal Distinction; 1.5 The Variability of Minds and Its Relevance to this Project; 1.6 Arguments in Support of the View that an Adaptive Perspective Can Provide the Basis for an Integrated Account of DMs; 1.7 Key Points; 1.8 Organization of the Book; Chapter 2 Investigating DMs from an Adaptive Perspective |
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2.1 Darwin's Theory of Evolution2.2 Alternative Theories of Evolution; 2.3 Issues in Darwinian Evolutionary Biology; 2.4 The Evolutionist's Task; 2.5 Theoretical Significance of Darwin's Evolutionary Biology; 2.6 Functional Explanations; 2.7 Identifying Potential Adaptations; 2.8 Identifying Potential Co-options; 2.9 Viewing Language as a Biological Phenomenon; 2.10 How Does One Investigate Language as a Biological Phenomenon?; 2.11 Understanding DMs from an Adaptive Perspective; 2.12 Research Questions; 2.13 Mapping Research Questions onto the Investigation Process; 2.14 Summary |
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2.15 Criteria Arising from a Darwinian PerspectiveChapter 3 Identifying Adaptive Pressures; 3.1 Identifying Adaptive Pressures in Argumentative Situations at the Personal Level; 3.2 Identifying a Suitable Lower-level Functional Analogue for the Argumentative Process; 3.3 Damasio's Decision-making Apparatus; 3.4 Adaptive Pressures; 3.5 Summary; 3.6 Closing Remark: Level of Correlation between Theoretical Entities and Its Significance; Chapter 4 Identifying Pre-existing Solutions (Part 1): The Interpretive Problem |
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4.1 The Interpretive Problem: From Representational to Categorical Interpretation4.2 Divergent Thinking; 4.3 Arguments in Support of the Co-option of Divergent Thinking; 4.4 Applying these Criteria to the Situation under Consideration; 4.5 Interpretive Shortcut Arising from Divergent Thinking; 4.6 Amenability to Testing; 4.7 Summary; Chapter 5 Identifying Pre-existing Solutions (Part 2): The Exclusion Problem; 5.1 Attention and Selection-for-action; 5.2 Attention and Selection-for-action and Complex Categories; 5.3 Summary |
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Chapter 6 Identifying Pre-existing Solution (Part 3): The Interference Problem and the InitialSituation Construction Problem6.1 The CI Model of Text Comprehension; 6.2 Extending the CI Integrative Strategy to the Interference Problem (P3); 6.3 Proposal: An Overview; 6.4 Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (TNGS); 6.5 Proposal (Continued); 6.6 The Initial Situation Construction Problem (P4); 6.7 Conclusion; Chapter 7 DMs' Capacity to Influence Interpretation; 7.1 Preliminary Considerations; 7.2 How Does the Brain Process Language?; 7.3 Damasio's Conception of Memory Encoding |
| Summary |
From a Darwinian perspective, language is rooted in our neurobiology, and the process whereby interpretation is reached - in the case of argumentative sequences - is not dissimilar to that underlying action selection in response to environmental change: indeed, it arguably involves the same type of decision-making (Damasio 1994). Context construction, as construed by Nyan, corresponds to the preliminary stage of decision-making, when the changed environment needs to be categorised. What discourse markers contribute to context construction is an upgraded level of automation, whereby the degree of variation assumed to be present in the interlocutor's processing context can be brought within a manageable range. How discourse markers influence interpretation is construed in terms of Damasio's (2010) convergence-and-divergence zone framework |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 15, 2016) |
| Subject |
Context (Linguistics)
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Discourse markers.
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Pragmatics.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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pragmatics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Context (Linguistics)
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Discourse markers
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Pragmatics
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016037952 |
| ISBN |
9789004273818 |
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9004273816 |
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