| Description |
1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Permission -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A World without Words? Language and Linguistic Equality -- Language, Mind, and Power -- Language as a Natural Resource -- Depletion and Preservation -- References -- Part I Language and Mind -- 1 Profile of an Alpha(bet) Predator -- Entropy and Cooperation -- DNA and Philosophy: Unambiguous Information? -- Interpreting Single-Signal Communication Systems: Cooperation and Co-option -- The Cognitive Arms Race: Combinatorial Communication Systems |
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Creative Cooperation and Violence: Human Language -- In a Class by Itself: A Hierarchical Combinatorial System -- The Neural Architecture of Universal Grammar -- Language between Brains -- References -- 2 Thinking Animals -- Rich Concepts -- Brain States and Reflexes -- Concepts of Objects and Events -- More Complex Capacities -- Remembering and Analyzing -- Comparing and Synthesizing -- Imagining and Planning -- Social Cognition -- Conventionalizing and Imitating -- Joint Attention and Theory of Mind -- Collective Intentionality -- References -- 3 The Narrating Brain |
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Cognitive Control through Language -- Language-imposed Telic Apperception: Schemata and Scripts -- The Predictive Power of Narrative Computing -- Setting the Parameters of Narrative Computing: Framing -- Narrative Cooperative Computing: Story Time -- References -- Part II Language and Power -- 4 Doing Things with Words -- Speech Acts -- Distinction 1: Types of Speech Acts -- Distinction 2: Types of Linguistic Purpose -- Distinction 3: Performing Illocutions Directly or Indirectly -- The Three Distinctions in Action -- Conversational Implicature -- Sentence Meaning vs. Speaker Meaning |
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Conventional vs. Conversational Implicature -- Contemporary Pragmatics -- References -- 5 The Language of Cooperation -- Three Levels of Linguistic Processing and Cooperation -- Level 1: Negotiating Syntactic Structures and Functions -- Level 2: Literal Interpretation: Negotiated Sentence Meaning -- Level 3: Extended Interpretation: Negotiated Implicatures -- 3.1 Linguistically Negotiated Identity -- 3.2 Linguistically Negotiated Politeness: Saving Face -- Coming Together: Harnessing the Cooperative Nature of Language -- References -- 6 The Language of Violence -- Genocide and Politicide |
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Ten Stages of Genocide -- Dispositions -- Content and Context of Genocidal Language -- Sexual Assault -- Linguistic Dispositions, Content, and Context -- Silencing -- References -- 7 Clarity from Managed Confusion -- Cooperation towards Understanding -- The Need for Managed Confusion -- Linguistic Information Management Strategies -- Keeping Track of Proforms -- Ordering Constituents -- Information Management: Chaining Given and New -- Clarity as Alignment with Audience Needs: The Example of Definitions -- Masters of Managed Confusion: Famous Authors |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Language, Logic, Predictability, and Event Model |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thiede, Ralf
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| ISBN |
9781000059533 |
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1000059537 |
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