Cognitive pragmatics : the mental processes of communication / Bruno G. Bara ; translated by John Douthwaite.

Here, Bara offers a theory of human communication that is both formalized through logic and empirically validated through experimental data and clinical studies. Bara argues that communication is a cooperative activity in which two or more agents together consciously and intentionally construct the...

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Main Author: Bara, Bruno G., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Not just language : a taxonomy of communication
  • 2. Tools for communicating
  • 3. Behavior games and conversation games
  • 4. Generation and comprehension of communication acts
  • 5. Nonstandard communication
  • 6. Communicative competence.