Context construction as mediated by discourse markers : : an adaptive approach / / by Thanh Nyan.
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...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Pragmatics, Volume 15 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in pragmatics ;
Volume 15. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Investigating dms from an Adaptive Perspective
- 3 Identifying Adaptive Pressures
- 4 Identifying Pre-existing Solutions (Part 1): The Interpretive Problem
- 5 Identifying Pre-existing Solutions (Part 2): The Exclusion Problem
- 6 Identifying Pre-existing Solution (Part 3): The Interference Problem and the Initial Situation Construction Problem
- 7 dms’ Capacity to Influence Interpretation
- 8 The Acquisition Issue
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Author Index.