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214The interplay of prior experience and actual situational context in intercultural first encountersPragmatics Cognition 26 (1): 112-134. 2019.The study aims to investigate how prior experience of interlocutors interacts with actual situational context in intercultural interactions when the latter is represented by a well-known frame: getting acquainted with others. It attempts to demonstrate how the cultural frame of the target language is broken up and substituted with an emergent frame that is co-constructed from elements from prior experience with the target language, the first language and the actual situational experience. Gettin…Read more
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114Activating, seeking, and creating common ground: a socio-cognitive approachPragmatics and Cognition 17 (2): 331-355. 2009.This paper argues that current pragmatic theories fail to describe common ground in its complexity because they usually retain a communication-as-transfer-between-minds view of language, and disregard the fact that disagreement and egocentrism of speaker-hearers are as fundamental parts of communication as agreement and cooperation. On the other hand, current cognitive research has overestimated the egocentric behavior of the dyads and argued for the dynamic emergent property of common ground wh…Read more
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42The paradox of communication: Socio-cognitive approach to pragmaticsPragmatics and Society 1 (1): 50-73. 2010.Communication is not as smooth a process as current pragmatic theories depict it. In Rapaport’s words “We almost always fail […]. Yet we almost always nearly succeed: This is the paradox of communication”. This paper claims that there is a need for an approach that is able to explain this “bumpy road” by analyzing both the positive and negative features of the communicative process. The paper presents a socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics that takes into account both the societal and individu…Read more
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26Activating, seeking, and creating common ground: A socio-cognitive approachPragmatics and Cognition 17 (2): 331-355. 2009.This paper argues that current pragmatic theories fail to describe common ground in its complexity because they usually retain a communication-as-transfer-between-minds view of language, and disregard the fact that disagreement and egocentrism of speaker-hearers are as fundamental parts of communication as agreement and cooperation. On the other hand, current cognitive research has overestimated the egocentric behavior of the dyads and argued for the dynamic emergent property of common ground wh…Read more
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15Pragmemes and theories of language use (edited book)Springer International Publishing. 2016.This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological asp…Read more
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12Intercultural PragmaticsOxford University Press USA. 2013.Intercultural Pragmatics studies how language systems are used in social encounters between speakers who have different first languages and cultures, yet communicate in a common language. The field first emerged in the early 21st century, joining two seemingly antagonistic approaches to pragmatics research: the cognitive-philosophical approach, which considers intention as an a priori mental state of the speaker, and the sociocultural-interactional approach, which considers it as a post factum c…Read more
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12Pragmatics and its interfaces as related to the expression of intentionPragmatics and Cognition 26 (1): 1-4. 2019.
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10The Socio-Cognitive Approach to Communication and PragmaticsSpringer Verlag. 2023.The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and sociocultural-interactional pragmatics. SCA broadens the scope of the field with an intent to incorporate not only L1 communication but also intercultural communication, and communication in a second language. The author integrates the pragmatic view of cooperation and the cognitive view of egocentris…Read more
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10Explorations in Pragmatics: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Intercultural Aspects (edited book)de Gruyter. 2007.Addresses issues that emerged as result of research in pragmatics proper and neighboring fields such as cognitive psychology, philosophy, bilingualism and communication. This book discusses theoretical and empirical work in these paradigms which directed attention to questions that warrant reexamination and revision of some tenets of the field.
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2Multilingualism. Pragmatic AspectsIn Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier. pp. 371--375. 2006.
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