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Overview
Overview
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
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Birner, Betty J.
- ISBN: 9781405175838
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.70 x 0.60
- Number Of Pages: 344
- Publication Year: 2012