Georgia M. Green
Auteur van Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding
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- Green, Georgia M.
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- Green, Georgia M.
- Geboortedatum
- 1944
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Opleiding
- University of Chicago (PhD | Linguistics)
- Beroepen
- linguist
professor - Organisaties
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1978-1979)
Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group
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- 5
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- 65
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- #261,994
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- 3.5
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- 1
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- 15
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- 2
Pragmatics is the field of linguistic inquiry that explores how language is used to construct meaning between individuals. This can mean the flexibility in the meaning of individual words: we know what computer means, but when I talk about the New York Times, do I mean:
a copy of the newspaper (I bought the Times today)
the information contained in it (I can get the Times online)
the paper's editorial board (The Times says the Democrats are right)
the business that publishes the paper (The Times owns the Boston Globe)
or what?
Mostly, I judge from the context of the conversation and from what I know of you to determine what you're probably trying to express. This sort of conversational mind-reading guessing game is going on all the time; it's what allows us to express nonverbal ideas in a verbal medium, and to produce infinitely many thoughts with a finite number of words.
Pragmatics also deals with the ways people use language to achieve social goals, from a simple request to an attempt to persuade or change someone's mind. The assumptions we make about other people's prior knowledge are pragmatic, as are the form and function of politeness.
Georgia Green's book explores all this and more. It's a rewarding read for anyone who is interested in the hidden details of language and the assumptions behind its use, as long as they're not put off by a modicum of technical language or too cool to read textbooks for fun. (I'm clearly not.)
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