Pragmatics:

An exploration of English pragmatics with a thorough integration of theoretical and experimental researchA central goal of pragmatics is to identify the capabilities that underpin our ability to communicate 'non-literal' meanings. Guiding students through the many facets of English pragmat...

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Main Author: Cummins, Chris (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Series:Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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Summary:An exploration of English pragmatics with a thorough integration of theoretical and experimental researchA central goal of pragmatics is to identify the capabilities that underpin our ability to communicate 'non-literal' meanings. Guiding students through the many facets of English pragmatics, this textbook discusses the ways in which people successfully convey and recover meanings that are not simply associated with the combinations of words that they use.The book draws on a broad range of data, including psycholinguistic experimentation, studies of acquisition and corpus research, and uses real examples from English to illuminate contemporary debates in pragmatics and related fields. With exercises and discussion topics at the end of each chapter, it invites students to explore how pragmatic meaning can be explained in theoretical terms and contemplate whether these explanations command empirical support.Wide-ranging treatment of the major topics in English pragmaticsThorough integration of theoretical and experimental researchAccessible introduction to relevant empirical methods, assuming no prior expertiseExtensive reference to real examples of usageExercises and discussion topics
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (232 pages)
ISBN:9781474440042
DOI:10.1515/9781474440042