Cognitive pragmatics /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 648 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Handbooks of pragmatics ; v. 4 Handbooks of pragmatics ; v. 4.
Subject:	Pragmatics. Semantics. Context (Linguistics) Cognitive grammar. Psycholinguistics. Cognitive grammar. Context (Linguistics) Pragmatics. Psycholinguistics. Semantics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11167928

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Other authors / contributors:	Schmid, Hans-Jörg.
ISBN:	9783110214215 3110214210 1283627515 9781283627511 9783110214208 3110214202 9786613939968 661393996X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English.
Summary:	Speakers tend to compose their utterances in such a way that the message they want to get across is hardly ever fully encoded by the meanings of the words and the grammar they use. Instead speakers rely on hearers adding conceptual and emotive content while interpreting the contextually appropriate meanings and intentions behind utterances. This insight, which is of course particularly relevant in all kinds of indirect, figurative or humorous talk, lies at the heart of the linguistic discipline of pragmatics. If pragmatics is the study of meaning-in-context, then cognitive pragmatics can be broadly defined as encompassing the study of the cognitive principles and processes involved in the construal of meaning-in-context. This volume is the first to systematically survey this terrain from a wide range of perspectives. It collects state-of-the-art contributions by leading experts from the fields of pragmatics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical linguistics and historical linguistics.
Other form:	Print version: Cognitive pragmatics. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

Table of Contents:

pt. I. Introduction
pt. II. Cognitive principles of pragmatic competence
pt. III. The psychology of pragmatics
pt. IV. The construal of non-explicit and non-literal meaning-in-context
pt. V. The emergence of linguistic structures from meaning-in-context.