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Language vs. reality :why language is good for lawyers and bad for scientists
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Enfield, N. J.,

"Argues that the primary function of language is not to describe the physical world but to manage the social one. Aimed at a general readership"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262368766
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1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) :illustrations
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Consequences of language :from primary to enhanced intersubjectivity
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Enfield, N. J.,Sidnell, Jack,

"Two senior scholars explain what language does to human beings, especially how it affects our intersubjective competence"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity
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Enfield, N. J.SIDNELL, Jack

What is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human? If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us? Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnel…

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Getting others to do things : A pragmatic typology of recruitments
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Floyd, SimeonRossi, GiovanniEnfield, N. J.

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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978-3-96110-278-5
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Studies in Diversity Linguistics 31
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400 GET