Pragmatics - Couverture souple

Cummins, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474440037 ISBN 13 : 9781474440035

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

A 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Cummins is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474440037
• ISBN 13: 9781474440035
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible