Blind people's pragmatic abilities

Blind people's pragmatic abilities / by Jolanta Sax-Wernicka.

This book offers an analysis of blind people's pragmatic abilities. By exploring the impact of visual impairment on the interpretation of utterances, it identifies common ground between the pragmatic analysis of comprehension and visual impairment, and shows how the study of pragmatics can be e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sak-Wernicka, Jolanta (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Subjects:
Pragmatics.
Blind.
Blindness.
pragmatics.
blind (people)
blindness.
Linguistics.
Psychology.
Society & social sciences.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Blindness
Blind
Pragmatics
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter One; Introduction; Pragmatics
  • the study of language understanding and context; Communication and comprehension; The Code Model; The Inferential Model; The Ostensive-Inferential Communication Model; Context; Perception and context; Context and general knowledge; Context and content; Misunderstandings and communication failures; Summary; Chapter Two; Introduction; Developmental pragmatics; The development of pragmatic abilities in sighted children; The development of pragmatic abilities in visually impaired children
  • The cognition and comprehension of blind adultsSummary; Chapter Three; Introduction; The study; Hypotheses; Participants; Material; Procedure; Analysis; Results and discussion; Implicature; Reference assignment; Ambiguity resolution; Humour and figurative language comprehension; Mind-reading; Concluding remarks and summary; Summary and Conclusion; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Index

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