On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure

This chapter presents a view of communication not as coding and decoding, but as ostension and inference, that is, one person doing something to show the intention to communicate, and then another person using abductive inference to infer the reason for the person’s ostensive act, creating a cont...

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Main Author: LaPolla, Randy J.
Other Authors: De Busser, Rik
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145888
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English