Cognitive aspects of language use

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Cognitive aspects of language use

edited by Asa Kasher

North-Holland , Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub., 1989

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Proceedings of the Second Israeli Cognitive Symposium held at Tel Aviv University, Apr. 1-4, 1986

"Reprinted from the Journal of pragmatics, vol. 12, nos. 5/6, 1988"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographies and indexes

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Description

The papers collected in this volume consist of the contributions presented at the Second Israeli Cognitive Symposium, held at Tel Aviv University, April 1-4, 1986. The biannual Israeli Cognitive Symposia are organized by the Tel Aviv University Cognitive Studies Working Group, consisting of linguists, psychologists, poeticians and philosophers. The research focus of this working group is on cognitive studies of language use.

Table of Contents

On Pragmatic Change: The Borrowing of Discourse Functions (E.F. Prince). Thematic Subjecthood and Cognitive Constraints on Discourse Structure (S. Garrod, T. Sanford). On the Rationality of "Relevance" and the Relevance of "Rationality" (Y. Ziv). On the Informativeness Requirement (R. Giora). Retrieving Propositions from Context: Why and How (M. Ariel). A Formal Model of the Structure of Discourse (L. Polanyi). Schema Theory and the Processing of Narrative Texts: The X-Bar Story Grammar and the Notion of Discourse Topic (Y. Shen). Data-Driven Action Descriptions in Simultaneous Reports (A. van Berkel). Metaphor, Meaning and Interpretation (J. Berg). "Oceanic" Dedifferentiation and Poetic Metaphor (R. Tsur). Meanings, Culture and Communication (S. Kreitler, H. Kreitler). Review Article: Computation and the soul: A propos Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson's Relevance (J.L. Mey, M. Talbot). Indexes.

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