Introduction to Pragmatics
- 7h 54m
- Betty J. Birner
- John Wiley & Sons (UK)
- 2013
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
In this Book
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Defining Pragmatics
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Gricean Implicature
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Later Approaches to Implicature
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Reference
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Presupposition
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Speech Acts
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Information Structure
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Inferential Relations
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Dynamic Semantics and the Representation of Discourse
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Conclusion
