Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication

Informationen zum Autor Tim Wharton is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He is a member of the International Pragmatics Association and is a regular contributor and reviewer for a number of international journals in language, philosophy and cognition. His previous book publications include contributions to The Routledge Encyclopedia of Pragmatics (2009), for which he was a consultant editor, and Pragmatics and Theory of Mind (2009). Prior to his academic career, he was a singer-songwriter and has written and recorded a number of songs which are still used as teaching resources for those learning English as a foreign language. Klappentext Examines non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective, establishing the role they play in our communication. Zusammenfassung How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance. It provides a unique examination of non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective! and considers the role they play in communication and how they interact with language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Natural pragmatics; 2. Natural and non-natural meaning; 3. Pragmatics and the domain of pragmatic principles; 4. Interjections and language; 5. Natural codes; 6. Prosody and gesture; 7. Mind-readers; 8. The showing-meaningNN continuum and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Wharton, Tim (University College London) Wharton, Timothy Wharton, Wharton Tim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521870979
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87097-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Communication Studies, Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics