Interpretation and Understanding.
Title:
Interpretation and Understanding.
Author:
Dascal, Marcelo.
ISBN:
9789027295897
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (736 pages)
Contents:
Interpretation and Understanding -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: Theorizing -- Chapter 1 Pragmatics and communicative intentions -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Conversational relevance -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Strategies of understanding -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Two modes of understanding -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Individual and collective intentions -- Chapter 6 How does a connective work? Between semantics and pragmatics: The two types of 'but' - 'aval' and 'ela' -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Commitment and involvement -- Chapter 8 Cues, clues, and context -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Models of interpretation -- Notes -- Part II: Applying -- Chapter 10 Understanding digressions A study in conversational coherence -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Understanding a metaphor: The beyond enterprise -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Three remarks on pragmatics and literature -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Understanding controversies -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Understanding the law -- Notes -- Chapter 16 Understanding jokes and dreams: Sociopragmatics vs. psychopragmatics -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Understanding art -- Notes -- Chapter 18 Why does language matter to Artificial Intelligence? -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Pragmatics in the digital age -- Chapter 20 Interpretation and tolerance -- Notes -- Chapter 21 Understanding other cultures: The ecology of cultural space -- Notes -- Part III: Meeting the alternatives -- Chapter 22 Why should I ask her? -- Notes -- Chapter 23 Speech act theory and pragmatics: An uneasy couple -- Notes -- Chapter 24 The pragmatic structure of conversation -- Notes -- Chapter 25 Contextualism -- Notes -- Chapter 26 Does pragmatics need semantics? -- Notes -- Chapter 27 Pragmatics and foundationalism -- Chapter 28 The marriage of pragmatics and rhetoric -- Chapter 29 Hermeneutic interpretation and pragmatic interpretation -- Notes.
Chapter 30 The limits of interpretation -- Notes -- Sources and acknowledgments -- References -- Subject index -- Name index.
Abstract:
Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from our cousins in the evolutionary tree. We developed sophisticated forms of communication. Yet, as much as they can convey meaning and foster understanding, they can also hide meaning and prevent comprehension. Indeed, we can never be sure that a "yes" conveys assent or that a smile reveals pleasure. In order to ascertain what communicative behavior "means", we have to go through an elaborate cognitive process of interpretation.This book deals with how we achieve the daily miracle of understanding each other. Based on the author 's contributions to pragmatics, the book articulates his perspective using the insights of linguistics, the philosophy of language and rhetoric, and confronting alternatives to it. Theory formation is shaped by application to fields of human activity - such as legal practice, artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, the media, literature, aesthetics, ethics and politics - where interpretation and understanding are paramount. Using an accessible language, this is a book addressed to specialists as well as to anyone interested in interpreting understanding and understanding the potentialities and limits of interpretation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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