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Pragmatics A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0195058984

ISBN-13: 9780195058987

Edition: 1991

Authors: Steven Davis, Steven Davis

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Until recently, pragmatics--the study of language in relation to the users of language--has been the neglected member of the traditional three-part division of the study of signs; syntax, semantics, pragmatics. This volume--the first of its kind--brings together the most important literature in this rapidly expanding field, including both classic papers and the work of the best-known contemporary theorists. Extremely broad-based, the book draws on the work of philosophers, linguists, and psychologists, and includes seminal papers by some of the most important writers on pragmatics over the last twenty years, among them H.P. Grice, J.R. Searle, Saul Kripke, David Kaplan, Deirdre Wilson, and…    
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Book details

List price: $169.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.50" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

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