Introduction to Pragmatics Hardback
by Betty J. (Northern Illinois University, USA) Birner
Part of the Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics series
Hardback
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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 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
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:17/08/2012
- ISBN:9781405175821
