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Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The Acquisition of Connectives

By Sandrine Zufferey

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2010
ISBN
9027256055, 9789027256058
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1462838 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 201
Pages
208\209
Time added
2015-07-24 13:42:54
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прагмалингвистика

Description

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality and full implications of this connection remain mostly to be explored. This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the interface between language, communication, and theory of mind, and puts forward an innovative proposal regarding the role of discourse connectives for this interface. The proposed analysis of connectives is tested from the perspective of their acquisition, using empirical methods such as corpus analysis and controlled experiments, thus placing the study of connectives within the emerging framework of experimental pragmatics.

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