Pragmatics
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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. This textbook provides 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 some of the…
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About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511813313
- Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
- Subjects English Language and Linguistics: General Interest,Language and Linguistics,Semantics and Pragmatics
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 29 July 1983
- ISBN: 9780521294140
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.713kg
- Page extent: 438 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9780511813313
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