Pragmatics: A Reader - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195058984 ISBN 13 : 9780195058987

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Until recently, pragmatics--the study of language in relation to the users of language--has been the neglected member of the traditional three-part division of the study of signs; syntax, semantics, pragmatics. This volume--the first of its kind--brings together the most important literature in this rapidly expanding field, including both classic papers and the work of the best-known contemporary theorists. Extremely broad-based, the book draws on the work of philosophers, linguists, and psychologists, and includes seminal papers by some of the most important writers on pragmatics over the last twenty years, among them H.P. Grice, J.R. Searle, Saul Kripke, David Kaplan, Deirdre Wilson, and Dan Sperber. Covering all aspects of the subject, Pragmatics: A Reader offers essays on speaker meaning, speaker reference, presupposition, speech acts, metaphor, and irony. It will be an indispensable resource for courses in linguistics, the philosophy of language, poetics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and psychology.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

`a very well-conceived anthology' John Perry, Stanford University `Such a book is long overdue' Kent Bach, San Francisco State University `a good, solid, well-balanced volume' Radu Bogdan, Tulane University

`It is with some gratitude that we turn to Steven Davis for editing a first collection of canonical texts the knowledge of which any self-respecting pragmaticist should have, presumably, at his or her fingertips ... This is a good collection for argumentative types. It might even provoke one of them to edit and introduce his or her own selection of canonical texts.' International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

`this collection serves admirably, and will endure, both as a reference work and as a teaching tool in advanced courses in language theory' Journal of Literary Semantics

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is an anthology of readings on the subject of pragmatics - the study of actual utterances or `speaker's intended meaning'. Pragmatics is relevant to a variety of disciplines and specializations, including linguistics, poetics, the philosophy of language, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and psychology. Davis's collection brings together the most important literature on pragmatics, including classic papers as well as the work of the best contemporary theorists. The selections are organized according to such topics as conversational implicature and relevance, speaker reference, indexicals, presupposition, direct and indirect speech acts, and non-literal uses of language. Informal and philosophical, rather than formal or technical, approaches to pragmatics are emphasized.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195058984
• ISBN 13: 9780195058987
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Éditeur: Davis
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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