Using Language (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521561587)

Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which has seen it as a social process, the author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.

Author: Herbert H. Clark
ISBN-10: 0521561582
ISBN-13: 9780521561587
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/1996
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.35w x 1.25d