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Getting others to do things: a pragmatic typology of recruitments
Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person’s behaviour solicits or occasions another’s assistance or collaboration share common structural properties that provide a basis for the systematic comparison of this domain across languag…
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- 9783961102785
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- vi, 429 p.: ill.
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- 410 GET g
Natural causes of language: Frames, biases, and cultural transmission
What causes a language to be the way it is? Some features are universal, some are inherited, others are borrowed, and yet others are internally innovated. But no matter where a bit of language is from, it will only exist if it has been diffused and kept in circulation through social interaction in the history of a community. This book makes the case that a proper understanding of the ontology o…
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- 9783944675503
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- 97 p.; 22 cm.
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- 410 ENF f
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