| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Confusing discourse/ Karol Janicki ; with illustrations by Siri Fuglseth and Tine Erika Fuglseth. |
| Author: |
Janicki, Karol. |
| Published: |
Basingstoke, England ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2010., |
| Description: |
xiv, 232 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
What are you talking about? : language and abstraction -- Learning new words : how we developmeaning -- Words are not what they refer to :the map is not the territory -- Words, words, words, and tables, cars and elephants : intensional and extensional orientation -- The good guys and the badguys : two-valued and multi-valued orientation -- The unfortunate word 'is' : 'is' of identity and 'is' of predication; e-prime -- Can you tell the difference? : non-verbal phenomena, descriptions, and inferences -- Can you imagine it? : the role of visualization and context in understanding discourse -- No bamboozlement, please : how to disclose others' equivocation and make your own discourse less confusingand easier to understand : a summary and some warnings. |
| Subject: |
Discourse analysis. - |
| Online resource: |
http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230250925access to fulltext (Palgrave) |
| ISBN: |
0230250920 |