Constructions of Intersubjectivity: Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition (Oxford Linguistics)

by Arie Verhagen (Author)

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  2007

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  Develops an understanding of linguistic communication focussed on cognition. The author treats pragmatics, semantics, and syntax in parallel and integrates linguistics, psychology, and studies in animal behaviour. He also shows the continuity between language and animal communication and reveals the nature of human linguistic specialization.