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5 - Concluding Remarks

Intersubjective Gradience and the New Cognitive Turn in Pragmatics

from Part III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Vittorio Tantucci
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
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In this last chapter I discuss the potential impact of the intersubjective gradience model on research in Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics. I explicitly refer to intersubjective gradience as a schematic mechanism. Abstract representation of immediate and extended interaction contribute to the formulation of linguistic acts as much as image schemata (i.a. Lakoff 1990; Mandler 1992; Di Maggio 1997) are hypothesised to trigger metaphorical thinking and determine the morpho-syntactical structure of grammatical constructions. I then show the applicability of the gradience model in Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) research and the way this usage-based framework can inform a fine-grained assessment of individuals’ ability to overtly express their awareness of an addressee’s potential reactions to what is being said. I finally summarise the main assumptions of the gradience model of intersubjectivity of this book.

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Language and Social Minds
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Intersubjectivity
, pp. 145 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Concluding Remarks
  • Vittorio Tantucci, Lancaster University
  • Book: Language and Social Minds
  • Online publication: 26 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676441.009
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  • Concluding Remarks
  • Vittorio Tantucci, Lancaster University
  • Book: Language and Social Minds
  • Online publication: 26 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676441.009
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  • Concluding Remarks
  • Vittorio Tantucci, Lancaster University
  • Book: Language and Social Minds
  • Online publication: 26 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676441.009
Available formats
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