Pragmatics

Zusatztext 'Jean Stilwell Peccei does an excellent job of introducing the fundamental concepts in a practical and user-friendly manner.' - Aidan Coveney! Modern Language Review Informationen zum Autor Jean Stilwell Peccei is a Senior Research Fellow and visiting lecturer at the Roehampton Institute London Klappentext In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics:encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentencesprovides a basic understanding of key pragmatic conceptsintroduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theoryencourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversationsprovides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading. Zusammenfassung In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is pragmatics  2. Entailment  3. Presupposition  4. The co-operative principle and implicature  5. More on implicatures  6. Speech acts  7. More about speech acts  8. Politeness  9. Making sense  10. Exploring pragmatics: projects

Product details

• Authors: Jean Stilwell Peccei, Jean Stilwell (Formerly At Roehampton Univ Peccei, Peccei Jean Stilwell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.1999
• EAN: 9780415205238
• ISBN: 978-0-415-20523-8
• No. of pages: 106
• Series: Language Workbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc