Using Language
- Hardback
- ISBN:9780521561587
- Publication date:May 1996
- 444pages
- Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.77kg
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This 1996 book argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners - writers and readers - perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. The author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.
