16.2353, Books: Pragmatics/Semantics/Cog Sci: Giv ón

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Subject: 16.2353, Books: Pragmatics/Semantics/Cog Sci: Givón

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Date: 05-Aug-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Context as Other Minds: Givón 

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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:33:07
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Context as Other Minds: Givón 

Title: Context as Other Minds 
Subtitle: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Z%20130 

Author: Talmy Givón, University of Oregon

Hardback: ISBN: 1588115925 Pages: xvi, 283 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027232261 Pages: xvi, 283 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1588115933 Pages: xvi, 283 Price: U.S. $ 46.95
Paperback: ISBN: 902723227X Pages: xvi, 283 Price: Europe EURO 39.00

Abstract:

Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics
of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive,
evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics,
is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of
relevance, has been well known since Aristotle, Kant and Peirce. But the
context that is relevant to the pragmatics of sociality and communication
is a highly specific mental operation - the mental modeling of the
interlocutor's current, rapidly shifting belief-and-intention states. The
construed context of social interaction and communication is thus a mental
representation of other minds. Following a condensed intellectual history
of pragmatics, the book investigates the adaptive pragmatics of
lexical-semantic categories - the 1st-order framing of "reality", what
cognitive psychologists call "semantic memory". Utilizing the network
model, the book then takes a fresh look at the adaptive underpinnings of
metaphoric meaning. The core chapers of the book outline the
re-interpretation of "communicative context" as the systematic, on-line
construction of mental models of the interlocutor's current,
rapidly-shifting states of belief and intention. This grand theme is
elaborated through examples from the grammar of referential coherence,
verbal modalities and clause-chaining. In its final chapters, the book
pushes pragmatics beyond its traditional bounds, surveying its
interdisciplinary implications for philosophy of science, theory of
personality, personality disorders and the calculus of social interaction. 

Table of contents

Preface  xiii-xv  
1. Perspective  1-37  
2. Categories as prototypes: The adaptive middle  39-64  
3. Semantic networks and metaphoric language  65-89  
4. Grammar and other minds: An evolutionary perspective  91-123  
5. Referential coherence  125-145  
6. Propositional modalities  147-177  
7. Discourse coherence and clause chaining  179-194  
8. Community as other mind: The pragmatics of organized science  195-220  
9. The adaptive pragmatics of 'self'  221-238  
10. The pragmatics of martial arts  239-254  
References  255-274  
Index  275-283 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (ENG)

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