Pragmatics / Chris Cummins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummins, Chris, author.

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language., Advanced

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 223 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

An exploration of English pragmatics with a thorough integration of theoretical and experimental researchA central goal of pragmatics is to identify the capabilities that underpin our ability to communicate ‘non-literal’ meanings. Guiding students through the many facets of English pragmatics, this textbook discusses the ways in which people successfully convey and recover meanings that are not simply associated with the combinations of words that they use.The book draws on a broad range of data, including psycholinguistic experimentation, studies of acquisition and corpus research, and uses real examples from English to illuminate contemporary debates in pragmatics and related fields. With exercises and discussion topics at the end of each chapter, it invites students to explore how pragmatic meaning can be explained in theoretical terms and contemplate whether these explanations command empirical support.Wide-ranging treatment of the major topics in English pragmaticsThorough integration of theoretical and experimental researchAccessible introduction to relevant empirical methods, assuming no prior expertiseExtensive reference to real examples of usageExercises and discussion topics

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

1 What is pragmatics?

2 Pragmatic theories

3 Implicature

4 Presupposition

5 Referring

6 Non-literal language

7 Arranging information in coherent discourse

8 Speech acts

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474440042

1474440045

OCLC:

1312726145