Overview
Examines the relationship between action and language, exploring their shared underlying mechanisms
Considers communication modelling and also aspects of communicative actions
Presents research from different disciplines and perspectives, using diverse methods including neurological experiment, computational modeling and logical and philosophical analysis
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(9 papers)
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Language in Communication
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Action and Bodily Awareness
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Sensorimotor Interaction and Language Acquisition
Keywords
- Communication-based approach to the study of language
- Communicative actions
- Constitutive condition on action
- Davidson’s approach to evaluations
- Deictic and anaphoric uses of demonstrative noun phrases
- Dialectic between Drefus and Searle
- Indefinite expressions in communication
- Indefinites in action
- Intentions in action
- Motor Motor representations
- Motor representations
- Norms of assertion
- Philosophy of action
- Relationship between action and language
- Relationship between speech act content and assertion
- Semantics
- Speech act content
- Verbal communication
About this book
Contributions from expert authors are organised into three parts in this book, focussing on language in communication, action and bodily awareness and sensorimotor interaction and language acquisition.
Readers will discover various methods that have been employed in investigations presented here, including neurological experiment, computational modeling and logical and philosophical analysis.
These diverse expert perspectives shed light on the extent to which a mechanism for processing actions also facilitates the processing of language and the authors’ work prompts further interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between language and action.
This book is written for readers from different academic backgrounds; from graduate students to established academics in disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychology, philosophy, linguistics and beyond.
Earlier versions of the selected essays in this book were presented at the 2013 IEAS Conference on Language and Action, held in Taipei, Taiwan.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Tzu-Wei Hung
About the editor
Tzu-Wei Hung is an assistant research fellow and a project coordinator at the Institute of European and American Studies at the Academia Sincia, the highest academic institution in Taiwan. He received his PhD from Kings College London in 2011 for a dissertation on the relation between the shared circuits model and language processing supervised by Shalom Lappin and Jim Hopkins. His work primarily focuses on the questions of how, and to what extent, the mechanism of action imitation can also describe sentence imitation. His honors include the Taiwan Merit Scholarship, National Science Council and the Academia Sinica Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communicative Action
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers of the 2013 IEAS Conference on Language and Action
Editors: Tzu-Wei Hung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-84-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4585-83-5Published: 05 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1355-3Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4585-84-2Published: 21 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 139
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations