Pragmatics : cognition, context and culture

Obra dirigida al estudioso de la lengua que desee adentrarse en los aspectos de la pragmática de la lengua inglesa.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Pragmatics: definition and scope
Chapter 2. What we do with language: Speech acts
Chapter 3. On referring, saying, and implicating: Reference and inference
Chapter 4. Politeness and Impoliteness: How to verbally reconcile our interlocutors' wants with our own (or not)
Chapter 5. Relevance: processing effort and contextual effects of communication
Chapter 6. Other topics of interest in pragmatics
References
Key to self-evaluation questions and exercises
Index

Product details

• Authors: Laura Alba Juez, Lachlan Mackenzie
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España S.L.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9788448607609
• ISBN: 978-84-486-0760-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 1 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies