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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

Introduction to Pragmatics

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 17/08/2012
    ISBN13: 9781405175838, 978-1405175838
    ISBN10: 1405175834

    Number of Pages: 352

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    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

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