Volume 54, Issue 4, 2017
Andrei A. Veretennikov
Pages 74-78
On understanding
Reply to Alexander Nikiforov
The aim of this paper is to discuss one distinct feature of linguistic communication, namely, misunderstanding. Along the general lines of the work of J. L. Austin misunderstanding treated as mistakes in communication or infelicities. The classification offered in the paper is based on the teaching practice and deals with two cases of infelicities – “total misunderstanding” and “overinterpretation”.