The how and why of syntactic relations
Human communication takes place when one person does something that when seen or heard by another person is taken to be done with the intention to communicate, and the other person, having seen the communicator show his or her intention to communicate, then uses inference to determine what the communicator intends to communicate. This is possible because the addressee assumes that the communicator is a rational person, that is, acts with goals in mind (see Grice 1975), and so must be doing the act for a reason, and it is worth the addressee’s effort to try to determine what that reason is, that is, determine the relevance of the act.
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| Author: | Randy J. LaPolla |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1158053 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 19.07.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Syntax |
| HeBIS PPN: | 247015539 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research |
| Note: | Invited plenary address and keynote of the Centre for Research on Language Change Workshop on Grammatical Change at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of Queensland, 7-9 July, 2006. |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
