Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which has seen it as a social process, the author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.
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"This is a bold, imaginative, and important book. Clark's focus on language use, and his contention that conversation transforms the nature of production and comprehension, pose a challenge to the prevailing psycholinguistic approach to language. Cognitive scientists, social psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists--indeed, all concerned with the way people employ language to accomplish their purposes in the world--will find much to interest them in this integrative and original work." Robert M. Krauss, Columbia University
"Using Language is a lucid exposition of views that Clark has been developing for over a decade. The central argument is that language must be seen within the complex belief and intentional context in which it is used. Clark tries to pinpoint exactly those features of the intentional context--the set of assumptions and ascribed intentions--which make communication possible, and, often, effortlessly effective. It is undoubtedly his major work to date." Stephen C. Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
"Using Language is a lucid exposition of views that Clark has been developing for over a decade. The central argument is that language must be seen within the complex belief and intentional context in which it is used. Clark tries to pinpoint exactly those features of the intentional context--the set of assumptions and ascribed intentions--which make communication possible, and, often, effortlessly effective. It is undoubtedly his major work to date." Stephen C. Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
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In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which sees language use as an individual process, and to work within the social sciences, which sees it as a social process, this text argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.
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This is a dense, important, juicy, rewarding book. Clark builds a convincing umbrella theory of language usage. The beauty is in the details, however, as he builds up concept after concept working with the simplest of actual language examples. Joint projects, common ground, grounding, layering, double tracking are some of the top level gems that popped out at me as he demonstrated them. But Clark finds little regularities, rules, and trade-offs at all levels. Every couple of pages brought out a new generality or a new insight. The book made me work and think a lot, but it was hugely worth it. Clark is very clear that his theory is about the usage rather than the structure of language. All us conversationalists know that there are tons of little messages and social adjustments in every utterance; Clark brings these situations and language strategies out like walking into a planetarium to see stars.
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I have already read some Clark's papers. This book collects a lot of the themes the researcher has developed during his studies.
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A very comprehensive and insightful book. Also, Clark is a fantastic writer. The focus of the book is on language, but I found it very useful for my own thinking (I'm a social psychologist interested in moral judgment and decision-making).
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Language use arises in joint activities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimal joint projects, extended joint projects, elective construals, joint salience, perceptual copresence, tuh speed, joint pretense, personal common ground, collateral signals, downward evidence, most joint activities, current common ground, communal common ground, ostensible invitations, proposed joint project, recurrent coordination problem, upward causality, nonlinguistic methods, phrasal utterances, recycled turn beginnings, strategic interruptions, nonlinguistic signals, resumed delivery, joint closure, generic obstacles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Professor Worth, Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, Miss Pink, Jordan Hall, Goethe House, Pan-American College, Goldberg's Grocery, New Yorkers, Miss Panoff, Skipton Place, New Zealand, American Express, Suppose George, North American, San Mateo, Jim Johnstone, Suppose Ann, Eiffel Tower, Fox Tree, King Henry, San Franciscans, Suppose Alan, American Sign Language New!
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Language use arises in joint activities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimal joint projects, extended joint projects, elective construals, joint salience, perceptual copresence, tuh speed, joint pretense, personal common ground, collateral signals, downward evidence, most joint activities, current common ground, communal common ground, ostensible invitations, proposed joint project, recurrent coordination problem, upward causality, nonlinguistic methods, phrasal utterances, recycled turn beginnings, strategic interruptions, nonlinguistic signals, resumed delivery, joint closure, generic obstacles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Professor Worth, Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, Miss Pink, Jordan Hall, Goethe House, Pan-American College, Goldberg's Grocery, New Yorkers, Miss Panoff, Skipton Place, New Zealand, American Express, Suppose George, North American, San Mateo, Jim Johnstone, Suppose Ann, Eiffel Tower, Fox Tree, King Henry, San Franciscans, Suppose Alan, American Sign Language New!
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