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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      May 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511620539
      9780521561587
      9780521567459
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620539
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 446 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.738kg, 446 Pages
      • Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    This book, first published in 1996, 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.

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    ‘This is a bold, imaginative, and important book. Clark’s focus on language use, and his contention that conversation transforms the nature of production and comprehension, pose a challenge to the prevailing psycholinguistic approach to language. Cognitive scientists, social psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists - indeed, all concerned with the way people employ language to accomplish their purposes in the world - will find much to interest them in this integrative and original work.’

    Robert M. Krauss - Columbia University

    ‘Using Language is a lucid exposition of views that Clark has been developing for over a decade. The central argument is that language must be seen within the complex belief and intentional context in which it is used. Clark tries to pinpoint exactly those features of the intentional context - the set of assumptions and ascribed intentions - which make communication possible, and, often, effortlessly effective. It is undoubtedly his major work to date.’

    Stephen C. Levinson - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

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