Title:
Speakers, listeners, and communication : explorations in discourse analysis / Gillian Brown.
Main Entry:
Brown, Gillian. Author.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Date:
1995, 1999.
Publication Place:
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
ISBN:
0521587050
9780521587051
Subject:
Oral communication.
Discourse analysis.
Reference (linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Deixis.
Contents:
1. Speakers, listeners and communication. 1.1. The nature of communication. 1.2. Variable interpretation in different contexts. 1.3. Variable interpretation among listeners. 1.4. Correct interpretation. 1.5. Adequate interpretation. 1.6. The gap between speaker and listener. 1.7. Minimising risk in communication -- 2. The Map task method. 2.1. Methods and problems with methods. 2.2. Background to the Map task. 2.3. A simple Map task. 2.4. Context and interpretation -- 3. Identifying features in a landscape. 3.1. The nature of reference. 3.2. The priority of reference in understanding language. 3.3. Sources of information. 3.4. Referring in a spatial domain. 3.5. Understanding referring expressions in a spatial domain. 3.6. Understanding constitutive expressions. 3.7. Achieving adequate interpretation of referring expressions -- 4. Guiding the listener through the landscape. 4.1. Locations and landscape features. 4.2. Deixis. 4.3. Deixis and the search field.
Related Records:
Online version: Brown, Gillian. Speakers, listeners, and communication. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)603829592
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