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ISBN: 9781405175838
Year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 344
Description:
Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through
traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly
on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to
explore the role of context in linguistic communication.
Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date
survey of the field, encompassing both established and new
approaches to pragmatics
Addresses the traditional range of topics ? such as
implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts ? as
well as newer areas of research, including neo-Gricean theories,
Relevance
Theory, information structure, inference, and dynamic
approaches to meaning
Explores the relationship and boundaries between semantics and
pragmatics
Ideal for students coming to pragmatics for the first time
ISBN: 9781405175838
Year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 344
Description:
Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through
traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly
on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to
explore the role of context in linguistic communication.
Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date
survey of the field, encompassing both established and new
approaches to pragmatics
Addresses the traditional range of topics ? such as
implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts ? as
well as newer areas of research, including neo-Gricean theories,
Relevance
Theory, information structure, inference, and dynamic
approaches to meaning
Explores the relationship and boundaries between semantics and
pragmatics
Ideal for students coming to pragmatics for the first time