Pragmatics: A Reader

ISBN 10: 0195058984 / ISBN 13: 9780195058987

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1991

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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.

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

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Pragmatics: A Reader
Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 1991
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket