Why language? : what pragmatics tells us about language and communication / Jacques Moeschler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moeschler, Jacques, author.

Series:

Mouton series in pragmatics ; Volume 25.

Mouton series in pragmatics ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Summary:

Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology and intercultural communication has directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination, as well as revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. The series welcomes proposals that reflect this endeavour and exploration within the discipline and neighboring fields such as language philosophy, communication, information science, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and cognitive science. MSP will provide a forum for authors who represent different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and intercultural paradigms, and have important and intriguing ideas and research findings to share with scholars who are interested in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Caveats

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Language and communication

Chapter 1 Eight commonplace assumptions about language

Chapter 2 Why is language not communication, and why is communication not language?

Chapter 3 Language structure and usage

Part II: Language, society, and discourse

Chapter 4 The social dimension of language

Chapter 5 Language and discourse

Chapter 6 Ordinary and non-ordinary usages of language

Chapter 7 Superpragmatics

Conclusion: What we do and still do not know about language

Afterword

Glossary

References

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-072338-7

OCLC:

1266227807