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Confusing Discourse

By: K. Janicki

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Hardcover | 18 December 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Do you usually think you are being understood? Do you think you really understand others? Have you, as many have, become so accustomed to confusion that you don't recognize it except when it is extreme? This book identifies and addresses some of the sources of confusion in discourse and offers ways of diminishing it.
Confusing Discourse is intended primarily for graduate students of language in linguistics, foreign languages, and in communication departments. However, it may also be found useful to advanced undergraduates focusing on confusing discourse, understood as part of the phenomenon of discourse in general. This book may also be recommended to anyone trying to find out how language works and how its use and abuse relates to palpable everyday life problems.

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Preface	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. x
What are You Talking About? û Language and Abstraction	p. 1
Learning New Words - How We Develop Meaning	p. 32
Words are Not What They Refer to - The Map is Not the Territory	p. 53
Words, Words, Wordsà, and Tables, Cars and Elephants - Intensional and Extensional Orientation	p. 88
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys - Two-Valued and Multi-Valued Orientation	p. 125
The Unfortunate Word 'is': 'Is' of Identity and 'is' of Predication; E-Prime	p. 142
Can You Tell the Difference? - Non-Verbal Phenomena, Descriptions, and Inferences	p. 171
Can You Imagine It? - The Role of Visualization and Context in Understanding Discourse	p. 190
No Bamboozlement, Please - How to Disclose Others' Equivocation and Make Your Own Discourse Less Confusing and Easier to Understand - A Summary and Some Warnings	p. 205
Conclusion: Can We Go Bananas? Discourse and Health	p. 216
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 219
References	p. 220
Index	p. 228
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