Janicki, Karol
Confusing Discourse
1. What are You Talking About? — Language and Abstraction
Karol Janicki
2. Learning New Words — How We Develop Meaning
Karol Janicki
3. Words are Not What They Refer to — The Map is Not the Territory
Karol Janicki
4. Words, Words, Words…, and Tables, Cars and Elephants — Intensional and Extensional Orientation
Karol Janicki
5. The Good Guys and the Bad Guys — Two-Valued and Multi-Valued Orientation
Karol Janicki
6. The Unfortunate Word ‘is’: ‘Is’ of Identity and ‘is’ of Predication; E-Prime
Karol Janicki
7. Can You Tell the Difference? — Non-Verbal Phenomena, Descriptions, and Inferences
Karol Janicki
8. Can You Imagine It? — The Role of Visualization and Context in Understanding Discourse
Karol Janicki
9. No Bamboozlement, Please — How to Disclose Others’ Equivocation and Make Your Own Discourse Less Confusing and Easier to Understand — A Summary and Some Warnings
Karol Janicki
10. Conclusion: Can We Go Bananas? Discourse and Health
Karol Janicki
Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Semantics, Language Teaching
- Author(s)
- Janicki, Karol
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 246 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230250925
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-31295-5