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Context Construction as Mediated by Discourse Markers: An Adaptive Approach

by Thanh Nyan
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004273825
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 198
  • Original Price: USD 151.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Approx XIV, 195
  • Item Weight: 431 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Semantics

From a Darwinian perspective, language is rooted in our neurobiology, and the process whereby interpretation is reached - in the case of argumentative sequences - is not dissimilar to that underlying action selection in response to environmental change: indeed, it arguably involves the same type of decision-making (Damasio 1994). Context construction, as construed by Nyan, corresponds to the preliminary stage of decision-making, when the changed environment needs to be categorised. What discourse markers contribute to context construction is an upgraded level of automation, whereby the degree of variation assumed to be present in the interlocutor's processing context can be brought within a manageable range. How discourse markers influence interpretation is construed in terms of Damasio's (2010) convergence-and-divergence zone framework.

Thanh Nyan, PhD. (1988), University of Paris-Sorbonne, is Senior Lecturer in French and Linguistics at the University of Manchester (UK). Her publications include monographs and articles on discourse markers, context construction, and the structure of utterance meaning from an adaptive perspective.

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