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Published 2016.
This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction (Pasqual 2002, 2014), that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself), discourse ...
Published 2016.
This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction (Pasqual 2002, 2014), that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself), discourse (monologues organized as dialogues), and grammar (?why me? Attitude?). The 17 chapters in the volume explore fictive interaction as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon, as a ubiquitous discourse-structuring device, as a possibly universal linguistic construction, and as an effective communicative strategy in persuasion and language pathology. The data discussed involve a wide variety of unrelated languages (spoken and signed) and modes of communication (oral, written, visual), across cultural contexts and historical time.
The research presented combines linguistics and cognitive science, while bridging the gap between core grammatical studies and modern conversation and discourse analysis. The volume further reaches across what may be the most basic divide in linguistics: that between descriptive, theoretical, and applied linguistics.
