The experiential basis of speech and writing as different cognitive domains

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 527-548

  Kravchenko, Alexander V ^a  

^a BAIKAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Consensual domain; Phenomenology; Speech; Structural determinism; Understanding; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549117078     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.17.3.03kra     Document Type: Article

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