Communicative Action Selected Papers of the 2013 IEAS Conference on Language and Action

This book focuses on the connection between action and verbal communication, exploring topics such as the mechanisms of language processing, action processing, voluntary and involuntary actions, knowledge of language and assertion. Communication modelling and aspects of communicative actions are con...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hung, Tzu-Wei (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Language in Communication
  • Chapter 1: Names, Descriptions and Assertion
  • Chapter 2: Indefinites in Action
  • Chapter 3: A Defense of the Knowledge Account of Assertion: From a Model-theoretic Perspective
  • Part 2: Action and Bodily Awareness
  • Chapter 4: When Actions Feel Alien
  • Chapter 5: Self-Consciousness and its Linguistic Expression
  • Chapter 6: Personal and Sub-Personal: Overcoming Explanatory Apartheid
  • Part 3: Sensorimotor Interaction and Language Acquisition
  • Chapter 7: How Infants Learn Word Meanings and Propositional Attitudes: A Neural Network Model
  • Chapter 8: What Action Comprehension Tells Us about Meaning Interpretation