Pragmatics Tutorial

Author: Zhuanyu Su
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: Pragmatics is an independent new discipline in linguistics established and developed by Western scholars in the 1970s and 1980s. This book is revised and organized based on lecture notes for the "Pragmatics" course offered twice to graduate students of the Chinese Language and Literature Department at Peking University in 1996 and 1998. In addition to serving as a textbook for graduate students of Chinese Language and Literature, it can also be used as a reference book for graduate students in departments such as Foreign Languages and Literature, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, and others, as well as for anyone interested in improving their communicative competence. The book discusses various important topics in pragmatics within the general framework of communicative competence. Understanding this point is crucial to grasping the overall approach, content arrangement, and selection of materials in this textbook.