Introduction to Pragmatics (Birner Betty J.)(Paperback)

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students throughtraditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularlyon phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary toexplore the role of context in linguistic communication. Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-datesurvey of the field, encompassing both established and newapproaches to pragmaticsAddresses the traditional range of topics - such asimplicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts - aswell as newer areas of research, including neo-Gricean theories, RelevanceTheory, information structure, inference, and dynamicapproaches to meaningExplores the relationship and boundaries between semantics andpragmaticsIdeal for students coming to pragmatics for the first
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