Pragmatics 3rd Edition - A Resource Book for Students

Informationen zum Autor Joan Cutting is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Edinburgh! UK. Klappentext Previously published as Pragmatics and Discourse! the newedition of this best-selling textbook: has been revised and reorganised to focus solely on pragmaticscovers the core areas of the subject: context! co-text! speech acts! conversation structure! the cooperative principle! politeness and extends to more applied areas: corpora & communities! and culture & language learningdraws on a wealth of texts that include political speeches and newspaper extractsprovides classic readings from the leading scholars in the disciplineis accompanied by a companion website featuring extra activities and advice for professors and students on how to use the book. Zusammenfassung Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration and extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. Previously published as Pragmatics and Discourse, the new edition of this best-selling textbook: has been revised and reorganised to focus solely on pragmatics covers the core areas of the subject (context, co-text, speech acts, conversation structure, the cooperative principle, politeness) and extends to more applied areas (corpora and communities, and culture and language learning)draws on a wealth of texts, from political speeches by the British Prime Minister and newspaper articles from the Telegraph and the Times of India, to extracts from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman provides classic readings from the leading scholars in the discipline, including Ruth Wodak, Jonathan Culpeper, Ronald Wardhaugh and Betty Birner is accompanied by a companion website featuring extra material, activities, and advice for professors and students on how to use the book. Written by an experienced teacher and researcher, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Introduction: concepts in pragmatics Context and StructureSpeech Act TheoryCooperative PrinciplePoliteness TheoriesCorpora and CommunitiesCritical Discourse AnalysisIntercultural PragmaticsPragmatics and Language LearningB Development: studies in pragmaticsAnalysing Language in ContextUsing Speech ActsUnderstanding ImplicatureAnalysing PolitenessAnalysing MarkersDetecting Hidden ValuesStudying Intercultural PragmaticsTeaching Pragmatics?C Exploration: data for investigationThree ContextsCulture and IndirectnessFlouting and ViolatingPoliteness and ImpolitenessVariation and Multimodal CorporaPower and Human RightsMisunderstanding and MediationLearning Pragmatics OnlineD Extensions: readingsKnowledge! Lexicons and ExclusionIndirectness and MiscommunicationRelevance and GenderImpoliteness and RudenessCorpora and Language TeachingMultimodal Critical Discourse AnalysisAfrican Face NeedsHybrid Pragmatics and Textbooks ...

List of contents

A Introduction: concepts in pragmaticsContext and StructureSpeech Act TheoryCooperative PrinciplePoliteness TheoriesCorpora and CommunitiesCritical Discourse AnalysisIntercultural PragmaticsPragmatics and Language LearningB Development: studies in pragmaticsAnalysing Language in ContextUsing Speech ActsUnderstanding ImplicatureAnalysing PolitenessAnalysing MarkersDetecting Hidden ValuesStudying Intercultural PragmaticsTeaching PragmaticsC Exploration: data for investigationThree ContextsCulture and IndirectnessFlouting and ViolatingPoliteness and ImpolitenessVariation and Multimodal CorporaPower and Human RightsMisunderstanding and MediationLearning Pragmatics OnlineD Extensions: readingsKnowledge, Lexicons and ExclusionIndirectness and MiscommunicationRelevance and GenderImpoliteness and RudenessCorpora and Language TeachingMultimodal Critical Discourse AnalysisAfrican Face NeedsHybrid Pragmatics and Textbooks

Product details

• Authors: Joan Cutting
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2014
• EAN: 9780415534376
• ISBN: 978-0-415-53437-6
• Series: Routledge English Language Introductions; Routledge English Language Introductions
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics