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Zusatztext [T]he book is very thorough in its coverage of topics within the field. Mindful of its student audience! it also has extensive study questions! examples! and glossaries. My overall impression is that it is a valuable textbook to anyone in the field of pragmatics Informationen zum Autor Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and has previously taught at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, and Oxford. His published work includes The Syntax of Anaphora (CUP 1994), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP 2000), and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (OUP 2012). Klappentext Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics has been fully revised and updated. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language, as well as new material covering subjects including conversational implicature, emotional deixis, and contextualism versus semantic minimalism. Zusammenfassung Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics has been fully revised and updated. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language, as well as new material covering subjects including conversational implicature, emotional deixis, and contextualism versus semantic minimalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Central topics in pragmatics 2: Implicature 3: Presupposition 4: Speech acts 5: Deixis 6: Reference Pragmatics and its interfaces 7: Pragmatics and cognition: relevance theory 8: Pragmatics and semantics 9: Pragmatics and syntax Glossary References Suggested solutions to exercises
