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
The book, Introduction to Pragmatics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781405175838 in Paperback by Betty J. Birner may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10/01/2012
ISBN-13:
9781405175838
Pages:
352
Publisher:
Wiley
