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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2012
      July 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511791314
      9780521550185
      9780521559942
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791314
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 364 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 362 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
      Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
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    When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. The problem is that it is not always a trivial matter to decide which of the meanings conveyed is explicit (grammatical) and which implicit (pragmatic). Pragmatics and Grammar lays out a methodology for students and scholars to distinguish between the two. It explains how and why grammar and pragmatics combine together in natural discourse, and how pragmatic uses become grammatical in time.

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