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Confusing Discourse

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Karol Janicki

    1. University of Bergen, Norway

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. What are You Talking About? — Language and Abstraction

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    Pages 1-31

  3. Learning New Words — How We Develop Meaning

    • Karol Janicki
    Pages 32-52

  4. Words are Not What They Refer to — The Map is Not the Territory

    • Karol Janicki
    Pages 53-87

  5. Words, Words, Words…, and Tables, Cars and Elephants — Intensional and Extensional Orientation

    • Karol Janicki
    Pages 88-124

  6. The Good Guys and the Bad Guys — Two-Valued and Multi-Valued Orientation

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    Pages 125-141

  7. The Unfortunate Word ‘is’: ‘Is’ of Identity and ‘is’ of Predication; E-Prime

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    Pages 142-170

  8. Can You Tell the Difference? — Non-Verbal Phenomena, Descriptions, and Inferences

    • Karol Janicki
    Pages 171-189

  9. Can You Imagine It? — The Role of Visualization and Context in Understanding Discourse

    • Karol Janicki
    Pages 190-204

  10. No Bamboozlement, Please — How to Disclose Others’ Equivocation and Make Your Own Discourse Less Confusing and Easier to Understand — A Summary and Some Warnings

    • Karol Janicki
    Pages 205-215

  11. Conclusion: Can We Go Bananas? Discourse and Health

    • Karol Janicki
    Pages 216-218

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-232
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About this book

We easily hear and see when people are talking and writing, but we often do not understand what they are talking or writing about . This book addresses some sources of confusion in discourse and offers suggestions for diminishing it.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bergen, Norway

    Karol Janicki

About the author

KAROL JANICKI is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Language Misconceived. Arguing for Applied Cognitive Sociolinguistics (2006).

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