The role of interlocutor familiarity in meaning creation in conversations

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tan, Zhi Xuan
• مؤلفون آخرون: Randy John LaPolla
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics; Humanities::Linguistics::Semantics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138307

This paper focuses on the role of interlocutor familiarity as a key factor in influencing the meaning creation process in conversations. Contrary to the classical Structuralist view of language as fixed codes to be decoded, we adopt the emergent view that words do not have inherent meaning. Instead,...