Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics

A comprehensive guide to the terms, concepts, and theories of pragmatics from the traditional to the most recent, showing how they originated and how they are used. A vital resource for students and researchers in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computational linguistics.

About the author

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He has previously taught linguistics at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. He has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His books include The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (CUP 1994, re-issued in 2007), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP 2000), and Pragmatics (OUP 2007, re-issued in 2014). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics planned for publication in 2015.

Summary

A comprehensive guide to the terms, concepts, and theories of pragmatics from the traditional to the most recent, showing how they originated and how they are used. A vital resource for students and researchers in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computational linguistics.

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Product details

• Authors: Yan Huang, Yan (Professor of Linguistics Huang, Huang Yan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2014
• EAN: 9780198712817
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871281-7
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Computational and corpus linguistics