Quotations as Demonstrations
TL;DR: This article argued that a person demonstrating a limp is not actually or really limping, but depicts some but not all of its aspects, and that the demonstrator of the limp depicts only selected aspects of the referent.
Abstract: The theory developed here is that quotations are demonstrations that are component parts of language use. Demonstrations are unlike descriptions in two main ways. They are nonserious rather than serious actions. A person demonstrating a limp isn't actually or really limping. And they depict rather than describe their referents, though they depict only selected aspects of the referents. The demonstrator of the limp depicts some but not all of its aspects. Quotations, we argue, have all the properties of genuine demonstrations. They too are nonserious actions and selective depictions. For evidence we appeal to a wide range of phenomena in spontaneous spoken and written quotations.*
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13 Mar 2003TL;DR: American Sign Language as a language, Grammar, gesture, and meaning, and an index of illustrated signs.
Abstract: In sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. This obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing has no parallel in vocally produced languages. This book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by these directional signs. It guides the reader through ASL grammar, the different categories of directional signs, the types of spatial representations signs are directed toward, how such spatial conceptions can be represented in mental space theory, and the conceptual purposes served by these signs. The book demonstrates a remarkable integration of grammar and gesture in the service of constructing meaning. These results also suggest that our concept of 'language' has been much too narrow and that a more comprehensive look at vocally produced languages will reveal the same integration of gestural, gradient, and symbolic elements.
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Abstract: In contrast to a vast literature that provides information and guides about focus groups as a methodological tool, this book is an introduction to understanding focus groups as analytical means ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss recontextualization and the blending of voices in professional discourse across boundaries, and discuss the role of recontextuality in discourse across different boundaries.
Abstract: Discourse across boundaries : On recontextualizations and the blending of voices in professional discourse
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...Cf., e.g., Tannen 1989; Clayman 1990; Clark and Gerrig 1994; see also the literature in linguistics o<n 'reported Speech', e.g., Volosinov 1973; Coulmas 1986; Thomas 1987....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX
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TL;DR: This edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.
Abstract: Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion, Professor Quine pinpoints the difficulties involved in translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. He argues that the notion of a language-transcendent "sentence-meaning" must on the whole be rejected; meaningful studies in the semantics of reference can only be directed toward substantially the same language in which they are conducted.
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: The integration of talk with non-vocal activities was discussed in this paper, where a change-of-state token and its sequential placement was used to represent the state of the state.
Abstract: Preface Transcript notation 1 Introduction John Heritage and J Maxwell Atkinson Part I Orientations: 2 Notes on methodology Harvey Sacks 3 On some questions and ambiguities in conversation Emanuel A Schegloff Part II Preference Organization: 4 Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes Anita Pomerantz 5 Subsequent versions of invitations, offers, requests, and proposals, dealing with potential or actual rejection Judy Davidson 6 Speakers' reportings in invitation sequences Paul Drew 7 Pursuing a response Anita Pomerantz Part III Topic Organization: 8 Generating topic: the use of topic initial elicitors Graham Button and Neil Casey 9 On stepwise transition from talk about a trouble to inappropriately next-positioned matters Gail Jefferson Part IV The Integration of Talk With Nonvocal Activities: 10 Notes on story structure and the organization of participation Charles Goodwin 11 Talk and recipiency: sequential organization in speech and body movement Christian Health 12 On some gestures' relation to talk Emanuel A Schegloff Part V Aspects of Response: 13 A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement John Heritage 14 On the organization of laughter in talk about troubles Gail Jefferson 15 Public speaking and audience responses: some techniques for inviting applause J Maxwell Atkinson Part VI Everyday Activities as Sociological Phenomena: 16 On doing 'being ordinary' Harvey Sacks References Subject index Index of names
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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The authors Theories of MEANING and LEARNABLE LANGUAGES (1965) 6 QUOTATION (1979) 9 RADICAL INTERPRETATION (1973) 13 ON THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME (1974) 17 What METAPHORS MEAN (1978)
Abstract: 1 THEORIES OF MEANING AND LEARNABLE LANGUAGES (1965) 6 QUOTATION (1979) 9 RADICAL INTERPRETATION (1973) 13 ON THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME (1974) 17 WHAT METAPHORS MEAN (1978)
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