Pragmatics

Author: (USA) Jean Stilwell Peccei
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences; provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts such as sentence and utterance, entailment, presupposition, implicature, and direct and indirect speech acts; introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the co-operative principle and speech act theory; encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, e.g., advertising language, children's conversations; provides a range of activities, discussion questions, sample answers, and further reading.