Introduction to Pragmatics Hardback
by Betty J. (Northern Illinois University, USA) Birner
Part of the Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics series
Hardback
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 pragmaticsAddresses the traditional range of topics - such as implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts - as well as newer areas of research, including neo-Gricean theories, RelevanceTheory, information structure, inference, and dynamic approaches to meaningExplores the relationship and boundaries between semantics and pragmaticsIdeal for students coming to pragmatics for the first time
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:17/08/2012
- ISBN:9781405175821
Information
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:17/08/2012
- ISBN:9781405175821
