Using Language

Herbert H. Clark
Cambridge University Press, 5/16/1996
EAN 9780521561587, ISBN10: 0521561582

Hardcover, 446 pages, 24.1 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This book, first published in 1996, 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. The author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.

Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. Language use
Part II. Foundations
2. Joint activities
3. Joint actions
4. Common ground
Part III. Communicative Acts
5. Meaning and understanding
6. Signaling
Part IV. Levels of Action
7. Joint projects
8. Grounding
9. Utterances
Part V. Discourse
10. Joint commitment
11. Conversation
12. Layering
Part VI. Conclusion
13. Conclusion
References.