Pragmatics of Human Action

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Baldwin, Dare ^a   Loucks, Jeffery ^a   Sabbagh, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action processing; Communicative action; Grice; Inferences; Pragmatic principles; Simple actions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920170800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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