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Introduction to Pragmatics

Introduction to Pragmatics

Birner, Betty J.

Paperback

Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, Book 37

LinguisticsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1405175834
ISBN13: 9781405175838
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Sep 14 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
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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