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Greco_2005_SCOMS_Dascal
Book review

Dascal on interpretation and understanding

  • Greco, Sara ORCID Istituto di argomentazione, linguistica e semiotica (IALS), Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
  • 2005
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  • Studies in Communication Sciences. - 2005, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 217-230
Communicative action
Commitment
Interpretation
(Mis)understanding
Conflict
Controversy
English This paper is a review of Marcelo Dascal’s book Interpretation and Understanding (2003), which collects a series of papers published by Dascal on various topics related to the pragmatics of communication and, in particular, to the hearer’s task of grasping meaning. The present work aims at discussing some relevant issues which emerge in the volume, such as the concept of communicative action (with the related notions of commitment and involvement), and a deepening of the different possible types of individual and collective actions. Moreover, a typology of difficult cases of communication is presented, ranging from simple indirect communication, to misunderstandings, conflicts and controversies; in these cases, a particular effort in understanding is required.
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  • English
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Information, communication and media sciences
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  • ARK ark:/12658/srd1336162
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