Handbook of pragmatics : 22nd annual installment / edited by Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Östman, Jan-Ola, editor.

Verschueren, Jef, editor.

Series:

Handbook of pragmatics highlights.

Handbook of pragmatics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA 'Handbook of Pragmatics' provides easy access - for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language - to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-272-6164-4