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Publication details [#51188]
Harder, Peter. 2009. Communication. In Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren, eds. Key Notions for Pragmatics. (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 1). John Benjamins. pp. 62–85.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
This essay deals with communication. From a broad perspective, understanding communication always involves understanding what the other person is doing and saying, and there are serious obstacles to integrating these two aspects into one whole picture. It is illustrated how the whole discipline of pragmatics is in a sense constructed on the basis of this geological faultline.