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Confusing Discourse

Autor K. Janicki
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 dec 2009
We easily hear and see when people are talking and writing, but we often do not understand what they are talking or writing about . This book addresses some sources of confusion in discourse and offers suggestions for diminishing it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230232600
ISBN-10: 0230232604
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: XIV, 232 p.
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:2010
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface Introduction What Are You Talking About? - Language and Abstraction Learning New Words - How We Develop Meaning Words Are Not What They Refer To – The Map Is Not the Territory Words, Words, Words…, and Tables, Cars and Elephants – Intensional and Extensional Orientation The Good Guys and the Bad Guys - Two-Valued and Multi-Valued Orientation The Unfortunate Word 'Is' – Is of Identity and Is of Predication; E –Prime Can You Tell The Difference? –Non-Verbal Phenomena, Descriptions, and Inferences Can You Imagine It? - The Role of Visualization and Context in Understanding Discourse No Bamboozlement, Please! - How to Disclose Others' Equivocation and Make Your Own Discourse Less Confusing and Easier To Understand – A Summary and Some Warnings Conclusion: Can We Go Bananas? – Discourse and Health Suggestions for Further Reading References Index

Notă biografică

KAROL JANICKI is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Language Misconceived. Arguing for Applied Cognitive Sociolinguistics (2006).