Understanding Pragmatics

Name: Understanding Pragmatics
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ISBN: 9780415840569

ISBN-10: 0415840562

ISBN-13: 9780415840569

Edition: 2014

Authors: Gunter Senft

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Understanding Pragmatics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Useis an introductory-level textbook focusing on linguistic pragmatics; the transdiscipline that studies language- and culture-specific forms of language use as social action. Languages are used by their speakers in multimodal social interactions according to language- and culture-specific conventions, rules and regulations. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, situative and interpersonal contexts, culture specific conventions and the speech events in which they are embedded.Discussed from a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, the chapters of…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 1/15/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 222
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034




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