Language and social minds : the semantics and pragmatics of intersubjectivity / Vittorio Tantucci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tantucci, Vittorio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Cognitive psychology.

Intersubjectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 187 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Combining theory from cognitive semantics and pragmatics, this book offers both a new model and a new usage-based method for the understanding of intersubjectivity, and how social cognition is expressed linguistically at different levels of complexity. Bringing together ideas from linguistics and theory of mind, Tantucci demonstrates the way in which speakers constantly monitor and project their interlocutor's reactions to what is being said, and sets out three distinct categories of social cognition in first language acquisition and language change. He also shows how this model can be applied in different settings and includes a range of examples from languages across the globe, to demonstrate the cross-linguistic universality of the model. Additionally the book offers insights into the gradient dimension of intersubjectivity in language evolution and across the autistic spectrum. Original and innovative, it will be invaluable for researchers in cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, applied linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

List of Abreviations

Part I

1 The Intersubjective Gradience Model: An Introduction

1.1 Defining Theory of Mind and Intersubjectivity

1.2 Intersubjective Gradience

1.3 From Co-actionality to Social Cognition

1.4 Limitations of Theory of Mind in Cognitive Psychology

1.5 Limitations of Intersubjectivity in Linguistics

1.6 Desiderata for a Gradience Approach to Theory of Mind and Intersubjectivity

1.7 Conclusions

2 Intersubjective Gradience in Use: From Immediate to Extended Construals of Social Cognition

2.1 Co-actionality and Intersubjective Gradience

2.1.1 Polysemy as an Operational Tool of Analysis

2.2 Immediate Intersubjectivity (I-I)

2.2.1 Why Subjectivity Is Not Taken into Account

2.3 Extended Intersubjectivity (E-I)

2.4 Methods and Data

2.4.1 Corpus Data in Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics

2.4.2 Corpora Used in This Book

2.4.2.1 The British National Corpus (BNC)

2.4.2.2 The British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2014)

2.4.2.3 The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES)

2.4.2.4 The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

2.4.2.5 The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

2.4.2.6 The Peking University Corpus of the Center for Chinese Linguistics (PKU-CCL)

2.4.2.7 The Lancaster University Mandarin Corpus (LCMC)

2.4.2.8 The Tager-Flusberg Corpus: ASD

2.5 Conclusions

Part II

3 Social Cognition in a Usage-Based Model of Language Change: From Immediate (I-I) to Extended Intersubjectification (E-I)

3.1 Intersubjectification in World Languages

3.2 An Illustration of the Gradience Model: From I-I to E-I of gànma in Mandarin

3.2.1 Social Cognition as an Inherent Element of E-I Construing.

3.3 Common-Sense Assertions: From I-I to E-I of [you don't want X] in American English

3.4 Attention-Getting: From I-I to E-I of Believe It or Not in American English

3.5 Interpersonal Evidentiality: The Case of guo in Mandarin and Balkan-Type Systems

3.5.1 The Extended Intersubjectification of guo

3.5.2 Interpersonal Evidentiality in Context: The Usage of guo in Factual Registers

3.6 Expected Agreement: From I-I to E-I of ba in Mandarin

3.7 Pre-emptive Refusals: E-I of [there is no NP] in British English

3.8 Conclusions

4 The Intersubjective Gradience Model Applied: From Immediate (I-I) to Extended Intersubjectification (E-I) Throughout Ontogeny

4.1 The Gradience Model as a Method in Theory of Mind Research

4.2 Opinion Elicitation and Mirativity of nkàn in Chinese Ontogeny

4.3 Interpersonal Evidentiality throughout Ontogeny: The Case of guo in Mandarin

4.4 E-I and Generic Reference: The Acquisition of Such

4.5 Conclusions

Part III

5 Concluding Remarks: Intersubjective Gradience and the New Cognitive Turn in Pragmatics

5.1 Intersubjectivity as Schematic Representation of Human Interaction

5.2 Intersubjective Gradience in Autism

5.3 Summary

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-62584-3

1-108-61998-3

1-108-67644-8

OCLC:

1198087839