Pragmatics /
Levinson, Stephen C.
Pragmatics / Stephen C. Levinson. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1983. - xvi, 420 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-396) and index.
1. The scope of pragmatics --
2. Deixis --
3. Conversational implicature --
4. Presupposition --
5. Speech acts --
6. Conversational structure --
7. Conclusions. TOC
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. Yet until now much of the work in this field has not been easily accessible to the student, and was often written at an intimidating level of technicality. In this textbook, however, Dr Levinson has provided a lucid and Read more...
0521222354 0521294142 (pbk.) 9780521222358
82014701
Pragmatics.
Linguistics.
P99.4.P72 / L48 1983
401 / LEP 1983
Pragmatics / Stephen C. Levinson. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1983. - xvi, 420 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-396) and index.
1. The scope of pragmatics --
2. Deixis --
3. Conversational implicature --
4. Presupposition --
5. Speech acts --
6. Conversational structure --
7. Conclusions. TOC
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. Yet until now much of the work in this field has not been easily accessible to the student, and was often written at an intimidating level of technicality. In this textbook, however, Dr Levinson has provided a lucid and Read more...
0521222354 0521294142 (pbk.) 9780521222358
82014701
Pragmatics.
Linguistics.
P99.4.P72 / L48 1983
401 / LEP 1983