Pragmatics

Name: Pragmatics
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ISBN: 9780521294140

ISBN-10: 0521294142

ISBN-13: 9780521294140

Edition: 1983

Authors: Stephen C. Levinson, S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. Dressler

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Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. Yet until now much of the work in this field has not been easily accessible to the student, and was often written at an intimidating level of technicality. In this textbook, however, Dr Levinson has provided a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between pragmatics and semantics, and Dr Levinson shows clearly how a pragmatic approach can resolve…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/9/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 435
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Notation conventions



The scope of pragmatics



Deixis



Conversational implicature



Presupposition



Speech acts



Conversational structure



Conclusions


Bibliography


Subject index


Index of names