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    What we mean, what we think we mean, and how language surprises us

    Smith, Barry C. (2010) What we mean, what we think we mean, and how language surprises us. In: Soria, B. and Romero, E. (eds.) Explicit Communication: Robyn Carston’s Pragmatics. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. New York, U.S.: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230545472.

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    Book synopsis: This collection of essays brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic underdeterminacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the construction or recruitment of concepts in on-line utterance comprehension, which is a particularly contentious area within the broader theme of the limits of explicitness in linguistic communication. Carston contributes with her current views and responds to some of the issues and criticisms raised.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2011 11:05
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:54
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2926

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