Cognitive Aspects of Language Use
Published on 1. July 1989
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-0-444-87150-3 (ISBN)
Description
The papers collected in this volume consist of the contributions presented at the Second Israeli Cognitive Symposium, held at Tel Aviv University, April 1-4, 1986. The biannual Israeli Cognitive Symposia are organized by the Tel Aviv University Cognitive Studies Working Group, consisting of linguists, psychologists, poeticians and philosophers. The research focus of this working group is on cognitive studies of language use.
The papers collected in this volume consist of the contributions presented at the Second Israeli Cognitive Symposium, held at Tel Aviv University, April 1-4, 1986. The biannual Israeli Cognitive Symposia are organized by the Tel Aviv University Cognitive Studies Working Group, consisting of linguists, psychologists, poeticians and philosophers. The research focus of this working group is on cognitive studies of language use.
The papers collected in this volume consist of the contributions presented at the Second Israeli Cognitive Symposium, held at Tel Aviv University, April 1-4, 1986. The biannual Israeli Cognitive Symposia are organized by the Tel Aviv University Cognitive Studies Working Group, consisting of linguists, psychologists, poeticians and philosophers. The research focus of this working group is on cognitive studies of language use.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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College/higher education
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Height: 240 mm
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978-0-444-87150-3 (9780444871503)
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Content
On Pragmatic Change: The Borrowing of Discourse Functions (E.F. Prince). Thematic Subjecthood and Cognitive Constraints on Discourse Structure (S. Garrod, T. Sanford). On the Rationality of "Relevance" and the Relevance of "Rationality" (Y. Ziv). On the Informativeness Requirement (R. Giora). Retrieving Propositions from Context: Why and How (M. Ariel). A Formal Model of the Structure of Discourse (L. Polanyi). Schema Theory and the Processing of Narrative Texts: The X-Bar Story Grammar and the Notion of Discourse Topic (Y. Shen). Data-Driven Action Descriptions in Simultaneous Reports (A. van Berkel). Metaphor, Meaning and Interpretation (J. Berg). "Oceanic" Dedifferentiation and Poetic Metaphor (R. Tsur). Meanings, Culture and Communication (S. Kreitler, H. Kreitler). Review Article: Computation and the soul: A propos Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson's Relevance (J.L. Mey, M. Talbot). Indexes.