14.3117, Books: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics: Dascal

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Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:28:34 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Interpretation and Understanding: Dascal

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Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:28:34 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Interpretation and Understanding: Dascal

Title: Interpretation and Understanding

Publication Year: 2003

Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/,
	   http://www.benjamins.nl

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid-Z_120

Author: Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv University

Hardback: ISBN: 1588114147, Pages: xxii, 714 pp., Price: USD 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027226040, Pages: xxii, 714 pp., Price: EUR 125.00

Abstract:

Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from
our cousins in the evolutionary tree. We developed sophisticated forms
of communication. Yet, as much as they can convey meaning and foster
understanding, they can also hide meaning and prevent
comprehension. Indeed, we can never be sure that a "yes" conveys
assent or that a smile reveals pleasure. In order to ascertain what
communicative behavior "means", we have to go through an elaborate
cognitive process of interpretation.

This book deals with how we achieve the daily miracle of understanding each
 other. Based on the author's contributions to pragmatics, the book
articulates his perspective using the insights of linguistics, the
philosophy of language and rhetoric, and confronting alternatives to
it. Theory formation is shaped by application to fields of human
activity - such as legal practice, artificial intelligence,
psychoanalysis, the media, literature, aesthetics, ethics and politics
- where interpretation an d understanding are paramount.

Using an accessible language, this is a book addressed to specialists
as well as to anyone interested in interpreting understanding and
understanding the potentialities and limits of interpretation.

Table of contents

Foreword  Ix
Part I: Theorizing
1. Pragmatics and communicative intentions  3
2. Conversational relevance  31
3. Strategies of understanding  52
4. Two modes of understanding  82
5. Individual and collective intentions  101
6. How does a connective work?  115
7. Commitment and involvement  149
8. Cues, clues, and context  169
9. Models of interpretation  194
Part II: Applying
10. Understanding digressions  213
11. Understanding a metaphor  244
12. Three remarks on pragmatics and literature  273
13. Understanding controversies  280
14. Understanding misunderstanding  293
15. Understanding the law  322
16. Understanding jokes and dreams  362
17. Understanding art  380
18. Why does language matter to Artificial Intelligence?  402
19. Pragmatics in the digital age  437
20. Interpretation and tolerance  457
21. Understanding other cultures  477
Part III: Meeting the alternatives
22. Why should I ask her?  497
23. Speech act theory and pragmatics  507
24. The pragmatic structure of conversation  521
25. Contextualism  542
26. Does pragmatics need semantics?  562
27. Pragmatics and foundationalism  594
28. The marriage of pragmatics and rhetoric  600
29. Hermeneutic interpretation and pragmatic interpretation  623
30. The limits of interpretation  641
Sources and acknowledgments  660
References  666
Subject Index  695
Name Index  709

Lingfield(s):   Cognitive Science
		Pragmatics

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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